💬 Quotes

"I’m not a child anymore. I’m a man. I have a job. I have money. I’m going to America."

"The hunger is always there, and it’s a great thing to be able to eat a piece of bread and jam and feel like a king."

"You can be poor, you can be hungry, and you can be cold, but if you have a sense of humor, you can survive anything."

"The mistakes of the past are like the seeds of the future—they grow in the soil we prepare for them."

"To live is to be marked. Living is a process of accumulation, shedding skins, dying each day to be born again."

"You can’t just walk into a jungle and tell it what to be. You have to listen to what it already is."

"Protecting someone is not the same thing as lying to them."

"The death of a child is a terrible thing, but it is not the end of the world. It is the end of that world."

"Imagine a ruin so perfect it doesn't require a story to explain it. It simply is, and that is enough."

"We are the makers of our own history, but we are also the prisoners of it."

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

"True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched."

"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."

"I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me open and it would slide out, warm and wet, and I would be better for it."

"You can’t just walk away from your life. You have to burn it to the ground."

"I was a little girl who lived through a massacre. People want you to be a certain kind of victim. They want you to be soft and wounded and hopeful."

"There are people who spend their lives waiting for the other shoe to drop, and then there are people who spend their lives trying to drop the other shoe."