💬 Quotes

"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."

"Only women understand the secrets of blood and the moon, and the power that resides in the silence of the red tent."

"We are the daughters of the mothers who came before us, and we carry their voices in our own throats."

"There is a kind of sorrow that is not a sadness, but a hollow space where a piece of your heart used to be."

"The gods of my fathers were men of fire and stone, but the goddess was the earth itself, and she was always listening."

"Birth is the most common of all miracles, yet it never ceases to change the woman who survives it."

"Even in the darkest exile, a woman’s hands can still weave a life, a story, and a memory that cannot be unraveled."

"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."

"You kill a man, you don't just kill him. You kill everything he was going to be."

"It’s the things you don't say that come back to haunt you, not the things you do."

"Maybe the world is just a dark place and we're all just trying to find a little light to keep from going crazy."

"Everyone carries a little bit of the monster inside them. It's just a matter of who decides to let it out."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words — Wait and Hope."

"I have been to the depths of despair, and I have learned that he who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."