Favourite Quotes Quotes

“Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.”
― Boris Vian, L'Écume des jours

“I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole.”
― Nicole Lyons

“There's a saying, cited in popular song, that if you love someone you must set them free. Well, that's just nonsense. If you love someone, you bind them to you with heavy metal chains.”
― David Nicholls, Us

“On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as "Here be dragons." That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we haven't filled in all the gaps...”
― Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant

“Sin embargo, era cierto que por primera vez comprendió que las personas en las que había confiado podían traicionarlo algún día, y que por decepcionante que pudiera ser, también era inevitable, y la vida seguiría impulsándolo sin cesar hacia delante, porque, aunque todos le fallaran, siempre habría al menos una persona que no lo haría.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“One part brave, three parts fool.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.”
― David Nicholls, Us

“Poetry is intimacy between poet and reader. It's revealing your truth and feeling safe acceptance in the unveiling”
― Adiela Akoo

“The World comes
like a lover, courting.
But a seeker only sees
a hunter, circling its prey.”
― Adiela Akoo

“A drop of PURE LOVE contains an ocean of transformative power... never underestimate the ripple effect”
― Adiela Akoo

“No one knows why they're born. You are simply brought forth in love. You arrive, and then everything else is guesswork. You choose a path, or it chooses you. You protest a lot ,or accept it willingly. It doesn't matter. It's yours, you own it. And now you have to live with it.”
― Lise McClendon, Blackbird Fly

“Everyone ripens at their own speed.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“To some I seem crazy, that's ok. They seem crazy to me as well.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Strength, courage and fire to pursue the unknown.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or even control.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“It is not hard, it is not easy — IT IS.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“You are an adventure. An exhilaratingly wild one at that.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Whatever one can do by oneself, one must do it — for oneself.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“One must learn, simply, to be.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“You are strong, you can endure the toughest of winds because you are eager to meet yourself.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Many people have told me to stay away, they said it was too savage and wild — they had no idea that it was exactly what I needed — savage and wild.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Illuminated from within we radiate the surface as we are all the one — knowing that in the one is the all.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Running amok, just like a phoenix you obtain this new life arising from the ashes of the old one.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“They are stuck in the past, while you, darling, forge the future.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“The way you have been treated was profoundly wrong, but all of it was testing your appetite to withstand, and that you did.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“We hurt ourselves much more than others can ever hurt us.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Nadie merece que le mientan por toda su vida”
― Cale Dietrich, The Love Interest

“Put your trust in God and allow Him to manifest it through man.
Don't rush the process.
Because the person you think will favour you, may not be the one God has prepared to favour you.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“La vida no está construida solo de las cosas que hacemos, sino también de las cosas que no hacemos”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“All I had to do was open a book to see the stories flow from the page

To another, to see memories engraved on paper.

I have spent my life immersed in the pages of books in the absence of relationships

Humanity formed relationships with paper characters. I experienced love and loss through inherited stories. I experienced adolescence by dependence. My world is an intertwined network of words”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me