💬 Quotes

"I’m not interested in being happy. I’m interested in being sharp."

"There’s no such thing as a good girl, really. There’s just bad girls who are better at hiding it."

"People don't change. They only get more so."

"We are what we hide. We are the scars we’ve earned and the secrets we’ve kept."

"It is a rare person who can look at a life of pain and see it as something worth keeping."

"Beneath the politeness, there was a jagged, desperate edge to everything in this town."

"We often mistake love for fire—something uncontrollable that can ravage everything in its path. But true love is a quiet, steady flame."

"I chose not to speak. It was a choice. A powerful one."

"We’re all dangerous, if we’re pushed far enough. We all have a capacity for violence, hidden deep within us."

"You become a victim of your own silence. You become a prisoner of the things you leave unsaid."

"Most of us are mighty good at hiding our true selves, aren't we? We wear masks, and eventually, we forget what lies beneath."

"Psychotherapy is not about truth; it is about the stories we tell ourselves to survive."

"How then, she asked herself, did one know one thing or another thing about people, sealed as they were?"

"For nothing was simply one thing."

"What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."

"She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of—to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone."

"The very stone work of the house, the walls, the ceiling, the chairs, the tables, had been taken and pressed to the earth by the weight of the silence."

"I have had my vision."

"Sometimes, dead is better."

"The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy is what you own. And what you own always comes home to you."