💬 Quotes

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"I was falling in love with her. Or maybe I was just falling in love with the idea of her."

"What is an instant? An instant is a moment before or after which nothing important happens."

"We are greater than the sum of our parts."

"Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, she was golden, she was loved."

"Sometimes you have to look at the shadows to understand the light."

"She has a way of looking at you that makes you feel like you’re the only person in the world, like she’s trying to memorize your soul."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. But the past is also a trap, a cage, a place where you can get stuck forever."

"It’s a strange thing, to realize that your life has been built on a foundation of lies, and that the person you thought you knew was a stranger all along."

"You can’t just erase a person. You can’t just stop loving them because they’ve gone. You have to carry them with you, every single day."

"The past is a ghost that never truly leaves; it just waits in the periphery, watching for the moment you think you’ve finally outrun it."

"Memory is a fickle thing. It’s not a video recording; it’s a story we tell ourselves, edited and revised until the truth is just a blur in the margins."

"People love a monster as long as he’s safely behind bars, where they can study him like an insect pinned to a board. But a monster in the neighborhood? That’s a different kind of fear entirely."

"Fear is a physical weight, a cold stone sitting in the pit of your stomach that doesn't dissolve no matter how many years pass."

"We all carry secrets, but some secrets are heavy enough to sink the people we love the most."

"You can spend your whole life trying to scrub the blood off your hands, only to realize the stain isn't on the skin—it’s in the bloodline."

"There’s no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free, if you truly wish to be."

"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after."

"However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there."

"Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple."