173 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“People can be miracles.”
“Reaching and reached. Cassia”
“Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it”
“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and vie...”
“Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. Its the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe its like the po...”
“Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look ...”
“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt a...”
“Thats how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
“Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible.”
“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”
“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way...”
“...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.”
“Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between deaths footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the sp...”
“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
“He's in pain. I am, too. It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain we feel.”
“at first when the rain fell from the sky so wide and deepit smelled like sage, my favorite smellI went up on the plateau to watch it cometo see the gifts it always broughtbut this rain changed from...”
“The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.”
“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
“Do not go gentle. So I fight. I fight the only way I know how.”
“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really arehow impossible to reach.”
“Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that."I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing--it canno...”
