💬 Quotes

"The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience."

"But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls."

"We pack the physical outline of the person we love with all the ideas we have about them."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

"In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self."

"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, by the immobility of our conception of them."

"Normal is just a setting on a dryer. It’s not something people are."

"I’m not crazy. I’m just... different. And being different is exactly what they want to hide."

"Secrets are like ghosts. They don't just go away because you ignore them. They rattle the walls until you acknowledge they're there."

"You can't choose who you are, but you can choose what you do with it. That’s the only real power you’ve got."

"The voices don't just speak. They scream. And I’m the only one who has to listen."

"When you’re a freak, you learn to look at the world from the outside in. You learn to spot the cracks in everyone else's mask."

"We were three little girls who went into the woods and only two of us came out whole."

"Memory is a treacherous thing. It isn't a recording; it's a retelling, and every time you tell it, you change the shape of the truth."

"Everyone in this town has a secret. They just bury them in different places."

"The monster wasn't in the woods. The monster was the story we told ourselves to survive."

"You spend twenty years trying to forget a name, only to realize that name is the anchor keeping you from ever moving on."

"Lies are like weeds. If you don't pull them out by the root, they eventually choke out everything else you’ve tried to grow."

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow."

"Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong, or even mean, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and—sad-making."