💬 Quotes

"History is not a burden on the present, but a map of the shadows we are destined to walk through."

"Some books are so dangerous that they must be found, even if they destroy the one who seeks them."

"The past is never truly dead; it is waiting, just behind the curtain of the present, for someone to draw the fabric aside."

"There are secrets in this world that are not meant to be kept, but only to be survived."

"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat."

"When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me."

"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could have answered. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself."

"The world is full of people who are trying to see you, but they won't look at you. They see only the masks they've put on you."

"Our fate is to become one, and yet many—This is not prophecy, but description."

"All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait. We conjure up a past that is more to our liking than the prosaic truth."

"There is something about a book that surpasses the printed page. A story must be lived to be fully understood, and the truth is often a ghost that haunts the periphery of our memory."

"A ghost is not a dead person. A ghost is a wedge of memory that refuses to be forgotten, a piece of the past that breaks into the present."

"You can never know a person. Not really. You can know their surface, their habits, their stories, but the core of them is a dark, locked room where they keep their true selves."

"In new situations, all the pieces are jumbled. But eventually, they settle into a new routine."

"Twins have a special bond, a symmetry of soul that makes the world feel like a mirror. When one is lost, the other is not just alone; they are halved."

"Whatever you do, do not believe a storyteller. They are liars by trade, and their craft is built upon the shifting sands of what might have been rather than what was."

"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."

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

"We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be."