💬 Quotes

"I was a fat girl, and I had been a fat girl for as long as I could remember. It was my identity, my shield, and my prison."

"Life, I realized, was a series of small, often painful departures from the people we once were."

"The thing about being broken is that you have to find the pieces yourself before you can even begin to think about putting them back together."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"Maybe we're all just looking for someone to look at us the way we wish we looked at ourselves."

"Forgiveness isn't something you do for the other person, it's something you do for yourself so you can stop carrying the weight of the past."

"The things they carried were largely determined by necessity."

"A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest that proper men behave properly, nor tell us what to do."

"They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all."

"I was a coward. I went to the war."

"That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t enough for the explanation."

"Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are."

"The gods of the monoliths had been silent for three million years; now, at last, they were beginning to speak."

"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."

"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."

"He was already beginning to realize that the 'Moon' was not a single place, but a collection of worlds, as varied as the nations of Earth."

"It had been invented in the unconscious depths of the mind, and it had been created to serve a purpose that was, for the moment, beyond human comprehension."

"He was a star-child, fresh from the cosmic womb, gazing upon the world he was destined to shape."

"Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way."

"It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!"