💬 Quotes

"I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that."

"It’s true that I’m a Negro princess, and that’s not something you can just ignore, but I don’t see why that should keep me from being a playmate of yours."

"Everything that is big and small is worth something, and even a little thing like a spool can be a treasure if you look at it right."

"Why should I grow up? Is it really so pleasant to be grown up? There are nothing but tiresome things, like work and taxes and having corn on your feet."

"People who are too busy to be kind are not doing anything worthwhile at all."

"If I am the strongest girl in the world, it is only so that I can reach higher shelves and carry my horse when he gets tired."

"Only you can decide what breaks you."

"We are the monsters that evil fears."

"Pity is for those who are helpless, and I am not helpless."

"There are different kinds of darkness. There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful."

"I would have come for you, sooner if I could. But I had to wait until I knew you were strong enough to survive the choice."

"To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered."

"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed."

"Human suffering confronts us, so to speak, at every turn. Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us."

"I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."

"Where is God? Where is He? ... Here He is—He is hanging here on this gallows."

"I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!"

"From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me."

"The past isn't a package you can put away. It's a ghostly recurrence."

"We are so acutely aware of our own mortality, that we cannot help but look for beauty in things that will outlast us."