💬 Quotes

"Once, I was loved for my wit and my looks. Now, I am loved for my invisibility."

"Everything is possible, he said. And he was right. Everything that has happened in the world has happened because someone imagined it first."

"The problem with being noticed is that it's just the first step toward being forgotten."

"I was looking for a way to say everything. To say that I was still here, and that I was still the person who had loved her, even if she didn't know it."

"A person is a collection of all the people they’ve ever known, and all the people they’ve ever loved, and all the things they’ve ever lost."

"True miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"I’m saying that people don’t just get over things. They get used to them. They accommodate the loss and go on."

"The world is full of grief, but it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"When you have a brother who is a fugitive, you spend a lot of time waiting. You wait for the knock on the door or the phone to ring."

"Faith is a thing you have to choose every single day, or else it just slips away like water through your fingers."

"If you look closely enough, you can see the hand of God in everything, even in the smallest details of a broken life."

"Every woman has a list. A mental catalog of the ways she changes her behavior to survive the world."

"It’s the tragedy of being a woman—you’re taught to be polite, even when your gut is screaming at you to run."

"Andrea wasn’t just a person; she was a warning. A ghost story that hadn’t finished being told yet."

"The darkness didn't come from the woods. It came from the people who walked through them looking for someone to break."

"If you wait for a sign that something is wrong, you’ve already waited too long."

"We are told we’re the weaker sex, but the amount of terror we endure just to exist proves otherwise."

"The Greeks did not believe that the gods created the universe. It was the other way around: the universe created the gods."

"The Greeks made their gods in their own image. They did not shut them apart in temples, dark and mysterious, but walked with them as friends."

"Love cannot live where there is no trust."