💬 Quotes

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

"There’s a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of them."

"We were so cute that I wanted to punch us in the face."

"Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl. Cool girl is hot. Cool girl is game. Cool girl never gets angry at her two male companions."

"I’m not a psychopath. I’m a person. I have feelings. I’m just a little… better at not letting them control me."

"Marriage is a series of small, mundane humiliations and daily compromises, and if you're lucky, it ends in death."

"We are so good at pretending, aren't we? We are so good at playing the parts we’ve written for ourselves."

"Everything before us isihilation or existence. We have to choose."

"If they hurt you, I’ll kill them all."

"The truth may be shameful, but it is still the truth."

"Being a child is a terrible thing to lose, but it is a necessary price for becoming an adult."

"You are a little animal, Lyra, and you have to learn how to be a human being."

"We are all subjects of fate, but we are also the architects of our own destiny."

"Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; one choked his little self and then there were nine."

"I have a definite programme. I intend to commit a murder."

"It’s lonely, isn’t it, down here? And you’re quite alone. Not a soul to hear you scream."

"None of us will ever leave this island."

"There is a whole life before me—and that life has been forever eaten away by a few moments of madness."

"I wanted to find out if I could commit a murder and get away with it, but the law has a long arm."

"We are all haunted by the people we used to be, and the things we left behind in the dark."