💬 Quotes

"Photography is a way of freezing time, of capturing a moment so that it can never be lost, even if everything else slips away."

"You can spend your life trying to rewrite the past, but the ink is already dry. The only thing you can change is the way you read the story."

"Love is not about possession; it is about release. It is about letting go of the person you thought you needed so they can become who they truly are."

"You’re the one who taught me that I don’t need a script to be happy."

"Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud."

"The truth is, you don't create the past. You just sift through it, and if you are lucky, you find something that isn't a lie."

"You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all there is to make it out of."

"Make us heirs of the agony of the past and therefore the masters of the future."

"It was like looking at a photograph of yourself and not knowing who the person in the picture was."

"If you don't start with nothing, you can't make something, can you?"

"Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to sneak through the brambles and find something new."

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

"Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they were when they were adults. Wait. No. Like they were when they were children."

"Monsters do not live under your bed. They live inside your head."

"I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world in which I lived, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that pleased me."

"The moon was a ghostly galleon, tossed upon cloudy seas, but here, the ocean was the truth, and the world was just a story that had been told to us."

"I’d rather die for a friend than kill for a stranger."

"Whose affection do you value more, hers or the others'?"

"The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away by terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears."

"I am not what you call a civilized man! I have done with society for reasons which I alone have the right to judge."