Life in Quotes

“It’s just myself talking to myself about myself.”

“Am I really living? Just because I’m breathing?”

“My heart hurts. The world is hard on me.”

“I don’t think everyone has to like something before giving it a try. I don’t think you need an unwavering will or lofty motive to get started. Sometimes things that you start on a whim become the most important things of all.”

“I want to be myself again. I want to be free. But... I can’t. Yet. I can’t explain why not. (Even to myself.)”

“We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we’re healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.”

“Are you ready for what awaits us? One is never ready for what awaits us.”

“They say hell is other people.”

“Please. God... Give me just one more ounce of strength. I won’t escape from my challenges of life. From tomorrow, I’ll look at everyone’s face. I’ll listen to everyone’s voice from tomorrow. I’ll do everything properly from tomorrow...”

“The only way you can live with your past is to recognize that every decision you make in your life will make you stronger. There’s no such thing as right or wrong, Brinn. Not in this universe.”

“Goodbyes hurt the most when the story was not finished... and the book has been closed.”

“We are, each of us, a product of decisions that other people made, one long chain of choices that stretch back to the beginning of humanity.”

“And then there’s this thought, all the time, all the time: That maybe I made a mistake.”

“I wanna know what it's like to be happy

“Do you ever...,” I said. “Do you ever feel they forced you to be what you are?”

“Humans are such fools.

“Not crying doesn’t mean you’re not sad. Like how laughing doesn’t mean you’re happy.”