💬 Quotes

"If you want to know who someone truly is, wait until they think no one is watching, then watch the reflection in the mirror."

"Memory is the architect of our reality. Change the memory, and you change the person. Change the collective memory, and you change the world."

"The past is never really gone. It’s just waiting to be remembered—or rewritten."

"We are nothing more than the sum of the things we remember, and if you take those away, you take away the soul."

"Time isn't a river. It’s a loop. And we’re just running laps until we finally learn how to stop."

"Love is the only thing that survives the entropy of time. It is the one memory that persists even when the world is folded into nothingness."

"If you could go back and change one moment, you would inevitably destroy the version of yourself that made that life worth living."

"Some people have gray, rumbling, thunderstorm minds; they are like the coming of a storm in July. Others have the stillness of the first frost of autumn."

"The dandelion wine stood in the cellar, silent, cool, un blinking, a gold coin mine, a summer burned and preservation-sealed."

"The secret of it was not to be alive, but to be truly awake and aware of being alive."

"Everyone is a machine, a contraption, a device, until they are broken, and then they are people."

"People are always so afraid of being hurt that they never let themselves be happy."

"To be everything, you must be nothing. To be everywhere, you must be nowhere. To be forever, you must be now."

"They say that memory is a choice. But if you remember, you are haunted. If you forget, you are free."

"To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted."

"I am writing to you from inside a body that was once yours—but before that, it was your mother’s, and her mother’s before that."

"All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from nothing."

"I used to think that the body was a cage, a place where the soul was kept until it could be set free. Now I see that the body is the house where the memory lives."

"Perhaps that is what a language is: a map of our own failure to be understood."

"I don't want to be saved. I want to be destroyed by you."