💬 Quotes

"I hated him. I hated how effortlessly he slipped under my skin, how he made me feel things I had no business feeling."

"Control was an illusion. I knew that, but it was a comforting one, the armor I wore to keep the world at bay."

"You don't get to walk into my life, turn it upside down, and then expect me to just let you walk away."

"Hate and love were two sides of the same coin, forged in the same fire and fueled by the same intensity."

"We were a disaster waiting to happen, but God help me, I wanted to burn with him anyway."

"Sometimes the past is a heavy saddle, and the only way forward is to unpack it, piece by painful piece."

"Love isn't about taming a wild heart; it's about finding someone who makes you want to build a fence and stay awhile."

"Trust is like a wild mustang—it takes patience, gentle hands, and a whole lot of time to earn, but only a sudden loud noise to lose."

"You can plan your life down to the last fence post, but God has a way of turning the entire pasture upside down just when you think you've got it mapped out."

"Home isn't just a stretch of land or a roof over your head; it's the people who stand with you when the dust storm rolls in."

"There's a specific kind of bravery in opening yourself up to someone new, knowing full well they could trample your heart, and choosing to risk it anyway."

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

"The book is like a man who has gone mad, a man who has been locked in a room with his own thoughts for too long."

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved."

"To be of the world, I had to separate myself from it; to understand it, I had to be broken by it."

"When you are totally empty, totally at the mercy of the elements, a strange thing happens: the universe comes in and fills you up."

"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."

"Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales."

"We thought that we search Google, but now Google searches us."

"The fundamental asymmetry is rooted in the distribution of knowledge. They know everything about us, while we know almost nothing about their lives."