Quotes I Found

“This nagging sense of incompletion, like a puzzle piece misplaced, had to be the immeasurable quality Celia was talking about, its shape and size different for everyone but its existence—this absence—uniting them. All of them.”

“No one enters this world by choice. If we’re lucky, we can choose how we leave.”

“…grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.”

“Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile. Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old…”

“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean…”

“Art is simply politics’ sweeter tongue.”

“Hateful is the dark blue sky

“What keeps me sane is this: forget about right or wrong. Make people think deeply.”

“There are no monsters. The monster is us.”

“I grew up in the shoes they told me I could fill.

“I have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that I am and then sink back into the ocean.”

“Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space.”

“Normal is being phased out.”

“The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory.”