63 quotes found
“Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard t...”
“Sympathizer.Its only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my moms death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.A sideways word, a word t...”
“....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered he...”
“I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.”
“What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.”
“Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.”
“Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing - pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons.”
“I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say ...”
“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
“Every choice is limited. That's life.”
“Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.”
“Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came fromthis sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.”
“You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
“Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.”
“We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.”
“...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear”
“I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it.”
“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”
“I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's ...”
