💬 Quotes

"The past doesn't just stay in the past. It lives in the drawings. It lives in the walls. It lives in the spaces between what we say and what we mean."

"Children have a way of seeing the things that adults have spent a lifetime learning how to ignore."

"Some secrets are like ink; they might dry and fade for a while, but they never truly disappear."

"It’s not just a drawing, Mallory. It’s a story. And you’re in it."

"You can be a good person and still be haunted by the things you’ve done—or the things you’ve failed to stop."

"Every line on the page is a choice, and every choice leads to a consequence I wasn't prepared for."

"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too still when the setting sun makes red the veld, nor be too moved when the birds of his country sing."

"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating."

"The truth is that our Christian civilization is riddled through and through with secular ideas, and that the decay of our tribal religion has left us without any moral compass."

"There are voices that cry out, 'What does it matter if one man is destroyed? The law must be upheld.' But there are other voices that ask, 'What is the law if it does not serve justice for all men?'"

"Pain and suffering, they have a strange way of binding men together, even those who stand on opposite sides of a great divide."

"For the dawn that comes, we must watch and wait. But the light will not come if we do not build the foundations in the dark."

"Half a man is all a king needs to be, so long as he has a whole mind."

"The world is full of people who act like they're doing you a favor, while they're sharpening a knife for your back."

"You can go a long way with a sharp blade, but you can go a lot further with a sharp tongue."

"A man is only as good as the oaths he keeps when the situation turns sour."

"It is not the strong who rule the world, but the clever, who use the strong to do their bidding."

"Fate is a river that carries you where it will, but a good oarsman can still steer the boat."

"I’m not looking for a prince. I’m looking for a partner who sees me as I am and loves me for it."

"The hardest part of being a queen isn't the power; it’s the constant choice between your heart and your duty."