Book Quotes

“It is lonely when you’re among people, too.”

“Years ago I cared. Now I don’t. I know I am lost but I don’t want to be found.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”

“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”

“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”

“Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”

“I’m with you. No matter what else you have in your head I’m with you and I love you.”

“Believing something existed and then finding out it didn’t was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.”

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”

“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

“I always felt like I saw things differently. Saw things other people didn’t.”

“I want to look back and say that I was alive. That I didn’t turn my back. That I tried. That I was happy.”

“Her smile, I’m sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”

“You misinterpret everything, even the silence.”