173 quotes found
Novelist · American
American novelist
“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.”
“But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.”
“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...”
“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.”
“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
“The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.”
“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 are—how impossible to reach.”
“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 are--how impossible to reach.”
“Reaching and reached. Cassia”
“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.”
“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...”
“She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.”
“Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the s...”
“At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about mys...”
“For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives”
“They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.”
“I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.”
“Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.”
