💬 Quotes

"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point when he should have surrendered."

"If you can take it, you can make it."

"The ocean was not only a setting for the story, but a character itself—a vast, indifferent, and lethal adversary."

"He knew that if he ran out of hope, he would die. He had to keep his mind occupied, even if it was just by reciting recipes or planning the future."

"The past was a ghost; it could haunt you or it could be the foundation upon which you built your new life. He chose the latter."

"If only she had known, she might have been able to make it right. But there was no one to tell her, and no one to help her, and so she was alone."

"I can see the things you're thinking, Momma. I can see the things you're feeling. They're like little sparks. They're all over you."

"She was a finger snapping in a dark room. She was a match struck in a basement."

"They're all going to laugh at you!"

"A girl is a girl, but a woman is a creature of strange and wonderful mystery, and that is what you are becoming."

"Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective."

"If you don't heal what hurt you, you'll bleed on people who didn't cut you."

"The truth is, sometimes you don't get closure. You just move on."

"I’m not a person who can just forget. I’m a person who has to understand."

"Losing hope is the first step toward finding it."

"You can't change the past, but you can choose to make the future something worth living for."

"You are what you love."

"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beady eye."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"You don't have to like it. You just have to do it."