Internal Dialogue Quotes

“Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In your rare embrace, sometimes I am lost nowadays. In these years, you have changed. I have changed. Every single day, we’re fighting our feuds silently; inventing devious ways to hurt one another. Our gazes keep to our feet: wavering, pirouetting and crisscrossing, so as to not stumble, even inadvertently, upon each other. Our windows look out at other windows looking in at us. Mynahs no longer come by in our balconies. Branches, not of a mango tree, but of a conglomerate, surround them instead. The silhouettes of concrete buildings sometimes shine in the rain's aftermath, but remain concrete. Today, as the Ganga rises and rages all over the city, people run for their lives, but I let it wash over my soul and flood my tears.’
('Left from Dhakeshwari')”
― Kunal Sen

“Tears fled her eyes as she ran, and they slid into her ears, but she did not wipe them, no, she pressed forward through the many trees, keeping her eyes upon the large shadow that flew forward, almost guiding her out of the woods, but that was preposterous – so why am I following it?
What do you mean why are you following it? It’s the only thing that’s putting distance between you and those...monsters back there!
But what about Lord Delacroix?
What the devil about him?
He tried to keep you safe – he truly did attempt to save you—
And what did that get him? Crushed by a damned Lycan – again!
But I should still go back to save him....
I should keep moving!
But he’s saved my life – I can’t let him die!
Technically, he’s already dead, Alexi....
Goddamn it all!
Run – run now – come back when you’re safe!
Come back? With who?!
Help, of course!
Where on Earth am I going to find help?!”
― S.C. Parris, The Immortal's Guide

“We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.”
― Matthew Donnelly

“She had been hesitant the first night, right before she had launched into him like a wild animal. The imprint of her violence had lasted on him well until the morning and while he had been hurt, he had loved the fact that she was into him, that she lusted after him fanatically, that she scratched him, wept on him, bit him and he was grateful that she let him see her like that: unhinged, throbbing and warm-skinned. She was powerful and thus ironically all the more defenceless in surrender. At times he felt as though she truly hated him, hated him for making her feel like this, for having to condescend herself just by wanting him. He felt as though she was warning him constantly through her seething, hurtling silence; to not let her down after she had disclosed so much of her soul to him. Her insecurities, her memories, her fetishes, her scent, her limbs; they had all been laid-bare in front of him and as he lay there next to the girl whose chest heaved and fell like the meter of a ghazal, he fell in love with that girl and her bundle of contradictions.’
('Left from Dhakeshwari')”
― Kunal Sen

“Our souls gravitate toward the things meant for us,
and everything that is meant for us isn't necessarily pretty, but whatever we are pulled toward is necessary for our growth.”
― Nikki rowe

“When there is complete peace of mind when the outer world is chaotic you will truly be free.”
― Matthew Donnelly

“Unpublished.




What if I, revealed these feelings
private pieces, cast… at stranger’s eyes
exposing sober thought, and truth
as sentiments, lie deep
interred, inside of me… should they come alive?

Unconsciously
to never share, that essence... safe, in mind

Restlessness wordplay, stills me
I was born… unsettled

Through my rage, of self-indulgence
all… those chosen things, I hide
deep and unexposed
stay inconsolable… within the inside”
― Bev Flynn, Wordmotifs... and Waterlines

“I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Privately Kate thought that for a guy in a banana-yellow suit he was turning out to be a pretty sharp operator.”
― Lev Grossman, The Silver Arrow

“She had an internal battle between letting go and holding on to tradition.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Why can't this family let us make our own life decisions?”
― Evelyn Smith, The Summer of Secrets

“She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.”
― Rachel Spangler, Heart of the Game

“Stopping the internal dialogue is the singularly most important act an apprentice must accomplish in order to unlock his or her full potential as a magical being.”
― Théun Mares, Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2

“Internal dialogue is the sum total of all mental and emotional activity directed at maintaining our view of the world.”
― Théun Mares, Cry of the Eagle: The Toltec Teachings Volume 2

“Your internal conversation is an invitation for change.”
― Jennifer Ho

“… When I needed their support the most, one first threw me out … and, then, they all ditched me and departed as if in vengeance, yoking me up to nursing a child …”
― P. Sheelwant, The Foe Within

“… Oh God, but what do I do about Dad’s ‘Helena ever, never’ … I feel like it’s eating me alive …”
― P. Sheelwant, The Foe Within

“… If I had the power to raise at least one from the dead, I would raise Iqbal; he was so indispensable to me …”
― P. Sheelwant, The Foe Within

“… Guddi and I would have been floating down the river dead by now hadn’t I come across the sketches on that platform … Oh God, how I miss not being aboard AI 666 on that day!”
― P. Sheelwant, The Foe Within

“If not led by the heart, be damned by the fart.”
― T.F. Hodge , From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“What went on in that head of his? I would soon come to understand that he gave voice to only a fraction of the thoughts that swam behind his eyes. It was not nearly so clean and smooth in there as it seemed. Other lives were housed in that mind, parallel worlds. Maybe we’re all built a little bit that way. But most of us drop hints. Most of us leave clues. My father was more careful.
When I think now of that moment in the kitchen, an almost unbelievable thought comes to my mind: There was a time when those two people - that man hunched at the table and that woman shouting in a bathrobe - were young. The proof was in the pictures that hung on the living room walls, a pretty girl and a bookish guy, a studio apartment in a crumbling Hollywood building overlooking a courtyard and a kidney-shaped pool. This was the mythical period before I was born, when my mother was not a mother and was instead an actress who might make it someday/. How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointment, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible. I like to think about how my parents’ lives once shimmered in front of them, half hidden, like buried gold. Back then the future was whatever they imagined - and they never imagined this.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

“Commune with the dew of your Soul. Awaken to all of you- your beauty. It is your unique essence that sustains, and your fragrance that maintains, in this ever present now.
You are beautiful. Love yourself.”
― Ulonda Faye, Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul

“Which is a little like trying not to think of an elephant. The elephant just got clearer, and bigger, and more real, until I could feel a hard trunk in my hand that wasn't an elephants trunk at all but might as well have been, and then I was leaving the front of the coffee shop before someone called the police on me for being a creep.”
― Simon Strange, Daddy's Other Boy

“One of the hardest things you will ever have to do is make peace between your ears. Once you do that … you’re free.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Hey, Josh, this is the guy who called dibs on my womb after one date. I know it sounds crazy, but he's also half Godzilla, so it all makes perfect sense in his world.”
― Roe Horvat, Skydive

“She pulled it off the wall and tossed it into the trash. Shut up, note. She didn’t take orders from anything that had a glue strip.”
― Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes

“And honestly. Offering to murder Blake, shock value aside, didn’t take much of the bloom off the rose for me. That seemed like such a sensible, normal reaction to Blake’s existence. Most people who’d met him and many who hadn’t had no doubt considered it.”
― Eliot Grayson, The Alpha Contract