💬 Quotes

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."

"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"

"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."

"We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?"

"Habit is a great deadener."

"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"

"Well, shall we go? Yes, let's go. (They do not move.)"

"I’m not interested in being happy. I’m interested in being sharp."

"There’s no such thing as a good girl, really. There’s just bad girls who are better at hiding it."

"People don't change. They only get more so."

"We are what we hide. We are the scars we’ve earned and the secrets we’ve kept."

"It is a rare person who can look at a life of pain and see it as something worth keeping."

"Beneath the politeness, there was a jagged, desperate edge to everything in this town."

"We often mistake love for fire—something uncontrollable that can ravage everything in its path. But true love is a quiet, steady flame."

"I chose not to speak. It was a choice. A powerful one."

"We’re all dangerous, if we’re pushed far enough. We all have a capacity for violence, hidden deep within us."

"You become a victim of your own silence. You become a prisoner of the things you leave unsaid."

"Most of us are mighty good at hiding our true selves, aren't we? We wear masks, and eventually, we forget what lies beneath."

"Psychotherapy is not about truth; it is about the stories we tell ourselves to survive."

"How then, she asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were?"