💬 Quotes

"I have lost control of everything, even the places in my head where I used to hide."

"There’s nothing so painful, so heartbreaking, as watching someone you love destroy themselves."

"People who drink like I do, they don't want to know the truth. The truth is painful."

"I am not the girl I used to be. I am not even the girl I wanted to be."

"You can hide a lot of things in the shadows, but eventually, the light finds its way in."

"The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete."

"The world will give you that once in a while, a brief timeout; the moment before your life opens up, when everything before it has been leading up to this, a sort of abeyance."

"Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about."

"You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all have to find a mother inside ourselves."

"Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get as still as you can, it will eventually shatter."

"There is nothing perfect in this world, there is only life."

"Lily, I like you better than any girl I’ve ever known, but you have to understand, there are people who would kill boys like me for even looking at girls like you."

"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."

"It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to learn. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers."

"You are a musician. You play at being a student, and you play at being a beggar. But you are a musician."

"I have, of course, read books on the subject. But it is one thing to read about fire, and another to be burned."

"We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be."

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

"We bury our sins, Dave. We wash them clean. But they don't always stay buried. They grow like weeds."

"The past is just a story we tell ourselves. And most of the time, we get the facts wrong."