💬 Quotes

"For nothing was simply one thing."

"What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."

"She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of—to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone."

"The very stone work of the house, the walls, the ceiling, the chairs, the tables, had been taken and pressed to the earth by the weight of the silence."

"I have had my vision."

"Sometimes, dead is better."

"The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy is what you own. And what you own always comes home to you."

"A man who grows the corn of his own land will never want, but he who forgets the burial ground will find that the earth itself is hungry."

"Maybe it's not death that's the tragedy, but the way we choose to live around it."

"You've got to learn that sometimes you can't fix everything. Sometimes the broken pieces are better left where they fell."

"There is a barrier in the woods, and beyond it, the truth is not a thing that can be spoken, only felt by those who have walked the path."

"Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But everything is really dependent on the way we perceive ourselves."

"The truth is a fire that burns away the dross of the world, and in the end, it is the only thing that remains."

"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was being chained to a wall and being tortured."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"Every human being who is alive has a dream, and that dream is a part of their heart, a part of their soul, and a part of their humanity."

"I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way."

"Sometimes we have to lose everything to find out who we really are. And sometimes we have to go to the end of the world to find our way back home."

"People aren't always who they seem to be. You can live with someone for years, share a bed and a life, and still not truly know them."

"The truth has a way of surfacing, even when you bury it deep beneath layers of lies and good intentions."