💬 Quotes

"Faith is not a matter of what you believe, but of what you do when the belief is all you have left."

"A man is a patchwork of the things he’s done, the people he’s loved, and the ghosts he’s decided to stop running from."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there, and yet the heart beats to the same rhythm of fear and love."

"It is a heavy thing to be a father, to realize that your children are not your own to keep, but only yours to prepare."

"To be at peace with one's own skin is a battlefield won, but to be at peace with one's own history is the war itself."

"Love is not a static state of grace, but a constant, exhausting, and wonderful act of will."

"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."

"The world had changed. The rules had changed. And if you didn't change with them, you were just another casualty."

"Fear is a living thing. It has teeth, and it has claws, and it waits for you in the dark."

"There are no adults anymore. No rules. No police. Just us, and whatever we decide we're going to be."

"Power is a dangerous toy for a child, but in this place, it’s the only currency that matters."