💬 Quotes

"They told us the monsters were waiting for us to make a mistake. They never mentioned that the monsters were also waiting for us to become them."

"To be forgotten is a mercy the forest will never grant you. You will be a part of the growth, a knot in the wood, an echo in the leaves forever."

"Everyone has a secret, a layer they peel back only when they think no one is watching."

"Trust is a fragile thing, easily shattered by a single misplaced object or a whispered lie."

"You can know someone for a lifetime and still not see the darkness hiding behind their smile."

"The problem with shared spaces is that you never truly know who you're sharing your life with until it's too late."

"In a house of mirrors, the hardest person to find is the one you see in the reflection."

"Fear isn't just about what's coming for you; it's about what’s already sitting at your kitchen table."

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought."

"The novel is a mechanism that works on the time of the reader, and the reader finds himself trapped within its pages."

"In reading, there is a certain happiness that has nothing to do with the story, but with the act of reading itself."

"Every book you pick up is a potential world, a fragment of an infinite library you are attempting to catalog through your own desire."

"A novel is a construction that must be kept alive, but if you stop reading, the characters cease to exist, waiting in a state of suspended animation."

"Perhaps the truth is that you are not reading one book, but a thousand different stories that converge only in the moment they meet your eyes."

"Life is always a matter of waiting, of watching, of hoping for the best, but always prepared for the worst."

"We are all of us alone, yet we are all of us bound by the same fragile threads of existence."

"The dog was not just a dog; he was a soul wrapped in fur, a witness to the best and worst of humanity."

"Monsters are not always made of flesh and bone; sometimes, they are the ones who claim to be creating a better world."

"Everyone lies. The only difference is the scale of the lie and how well they hide the cracks."

"You don’t look for the truth in a marriage; you look for the version of the truth that allows you to keep sleeping in the same bed."