💬 Quotes

"I want to be a saint. No, I want to be a legend. No, I want to be a person who is actually useful."

"Everything is a performance, even the moments when we think we are being most honest."

"We are a unit, a little brotherhood of the left-behind, trying to figure out the rules of a game we never signed up to play."

"The sadness is not a state of being, but a weight you carry, and sometimes, you just have to put it down to see if you can still stand."

"If you are going to be heartbroken, you might as well be spectacular about it."

"I take your hand and feel the pulse of your life, beating in time with mine. It is a slow, steady rhythm that keeps the world from spinning out of control."

"Time is an ocean, and we are just little boats, bobbing on the surface, trying not to sink."

"I am waiting for you. I’ve been waiting for you my whole life, and I will be waiting for you until the very end."

"It’s hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he’s okay, wondering if he’s coming back. It’s like living with a ghost."

"The memory of you is my home, the only place I can go when the present becomes too much to bear."

"As well as I know you, I don’t know you at all. I know who you were, and who you will be, but I don't always know who you are right now."

"I pursued nature to her hiding-places. Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil, as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave?"

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."

"I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed."

"Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?"

"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."

"The more books you read, the more you understand that you know nothing."

"I don't care how much money you have. I don't care who you are. If you cross me, I will destroy you."

"She was a woman who was perceived as a victim, but she was in fact a survivor who refused to be defined by her past."