The madness of youth made me unafraid.
Lauren DeStefano, Perfect Ruin.
“A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.”
“We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.”
“Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.”
“You arent crazy, he says. What? Ive known you all your life, and youve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you. Those may be the best word...”
“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”
“With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement”
“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”
“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”
“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”
“Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it al...”
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”