💬 Quotes

"The city is a place where you can be surrounded by millions of people and still be perfectly, utterly alone."

"Wealth is a great leveler, but it also creates a wall—a wall of glass that you can see through, but that no one can ever get through."

"The truth is a luxury that people like us can only afford once we've exhausted all other possibilities."

"You’re a Master of the Universe. You make the world go round, and you think you’re untouchable until the moment you realize you’re just a pawn in someone else’s game."

"In this city, the only thing that matters is how you look when you're going down."

"It was a pact, a promise, and a way to hold on to the pieces of ourselves that were scattering to the corners of the world."

"Maybe love is about finding the person who makes you feel like you are enough, just as you are."

"The pants didn't change the world. They didn't make us perfect. They just made us feel like we were all in this together."

"I’ve learned that you can’t protect people from being hurt. You can only be there for them when they are."

"You are beautiful in a way that has nothing to do with what you look like on the outside."

"Distance is only a test to see how far love can travel."

"Il faut d'abord chercher la simplicité. Qu'est-ce que le Besoin ? Quelle est la nécessité première de cet homme ? Il convoite. Et il convoite ce qu'il voit chaque jour."

"Bycie 'grzeczną dziewczynką' to nie cecha charakteru, to klatka, w której cię zamknęli."

"For in the end, it was the house that destroyed them all, the house that had been bought and sold, the house that stood silent and indifferent while their lives collapsed around it."

"He lived in the present tense, a life built on the foundations of a past that no longer existed, save in his own mind."

"You are a small thing in a large world, Kathy, and sometimes the world simply does not care what you want."

"God does not listen to the prayers of those who have already decided what they are going to do."

"There is a kind of freedom in losing everything, but it is a cold and empty sort of liberty."

"Everything in this country is bought and sold, even the air we breathe, even the dignity we try to hide behind our closed doors."

"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it."