💬 Quotes

"Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's life was worth a pocket watch."

"They took me in my nightgown. I didn't even have time to put on my shoes. I was drawing. I was always drawing."

"I realized that if I died, I would be nothing but a statistic. I had to live. I had to be a witness."

"You see, Lina, you are like a stone. You are hard and unyielding. You must learn to be like the reed, to bend with the wind, or you will break."

"Good people, bad people. I don't know which is which anymore. The world is changing, Lina. Everything we knew is being erased."

"I hope you don't lose your heart, even after everything they've done to us. That is the only way we win."

"Distance is not measured in miles, but in the thickness of the secrets we keep from those who love us most."

"Some stones are thrown to build a wall, others are cast into a pond just to see how deep the silence goes before the ripples reach the shore."

"The past doesn't haunt you because it refuses to leave; it haunts you because you refuse to stop inviting it back for dinner."

"Forgiveness is not a gesture of kindness toward the offender, but a quiet act of surgery performed on one's own soul to stop the rot."

"We spend our youth trying to be seen, and the rest of our lives trying to disappear into the right moments."

"Truth is a jagged thing; it rarely fits into the polite boxes we build for it, and it usually draws blood on the way out."

"A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries."

"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, neither thunderstorms nor blizzards nor storms of petals; it is we who create the divisions."

"There are only two ways to life: one is the regular, direct and healthy way, and the other is the unwholesome way that leads to genius—through death and disease."

"Everything is result. Everything is the consequence of what has gone before. Everything is the fruit of the past."

"Curiosity is the source of all knowledge, and it is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom, but the end of it is a firm conviction."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

"I felt my teacher's hand across mine, and the word 'water' was spelled into my palm. The living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!"