💬 Quotes

"Everything is a performance, even the moments when we think we are being most honest."

"We are a unit, a little brotherhood of the left-behind, trying to figure out the rules of a game we never signed up to play."

"The sadness is not a state of being, but a weight you carry, and sometimes, you just have to put it down to see if you can still stand."

"If you are going to be heartbroken, you might as well be spectacular about it."

"I take your hand and feel the pulse of your life, beating in time with mine. It is a slow, steady rhythm that keeps the world from spinning out of control."

"Time is an ocean, and we are just little boats, bobbing on the surface, trying not to sink."

"I am waiting for you. I’ve been waiting for you my whole life, and I will be waiting for you until the very end."

"It’s hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he’s okay, wondering if he’s coming back. It’s like living with a ghost."

"The memory of you is my home, the only place I can go when the present becomes too much to bear."

"As well as I know you, I don’t know you at all. I know who you were, and who you will be, but I don't always know who you are right now."

"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years on end, after he plundered the stronghold on the proud height of Troy."

"Of all the creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."

"There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

"Be patient, my soul; you have suffered worse than this."

"Nobody—that is my name. Nobody, so my mother and father call me, all my friends."

"Rest satisfied, spare the living, no more slaughter. I am struck by your restraint—you who have quelled the grief of a father for his son."

"The more books you read, the more you understand that you know nothing."

"I don't care how much money you have. I don't care who you are. If you cross me, I will destroy you."

"She was a woman who was perceived as a victim, but she was in fact a survivor who refused to be defined by her past."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple; it is a tangled web of lies, secrets, and half-truths."