Quotes

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

“Come here. Look at me - there is a gash through my heart. If you mutter words of love, they will sail right through me.”

“I’ve always liked quiet people: You never know if they’re dancing in a daydream or if they’re carrying the weight of the world.”

“You have returned - and the sky is still black - my soul, still black - and the path in which I walk upon, still black black black. Oh when will you open your soul, love, and put the sun back?”

“It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.”

“If I rolled around naked in a tub of razors, I might have had a more enjoyable evening than I’ve had tonight….”

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

“Life, a distant dream”

“Oh no. The sadness is intensifying. How rude.”

“Stop trying to find the right person, be the right person. Instead of being with someone who makes you happy, first, be someone who makes you happy.”

“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”

“She has no memory, nor fear, nor hope Beyond the grass and shadows at her feet.”

“I don’t speak about it anymore, the pain. When you have known so much. When you have screamed so loudly. The next stage is unbroken silence.”

“If it gets awkward, let it be awkward. That awkwardness is something they created. You don’t owe anyone a performance of being okay when you are not feeling okay so that they can feel better about themselves.”

“I have been dreaming again about winter. An orb of snowfall to circle us close. Our words, somewhere, drifting, half-real. And you, with your fingers, searching. And I, with my heart-fever, burning.”

“I carry all of the sorrow of the world inside my heart.”

“Some days I break into a thousand pieces.”