Quotes About Reflection

I do it all the time now, reaching for the silence, making the thoughts and memories go away, and most of the time it works on the outside, too.

You are what you remember. You are what you hold on to.

Az élet csak rohanás. És ha egyszer megállunk, talán abból tudjuk majd, hogy vége.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back.

Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory is stupid, ain't it?

I kept thinking, in another life, if I made different choices, it could be you and me instead.

Life equals running and when we stop running, maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

Às vezes as pessoas precisam mentir para si mesmas acima de tudo.

A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while.

Roads is never the fastest way to get nowhere," the woman says. "Don't ye know that?

Cumplir años es envejecer, crecer es otra cosa.

Cumplir años es envejecer, crecer es otra cosa. Es darse cuenta de que la vida no es lo que esperas. No es justa, ni predecible, ni controlable. Es comprobar que a veces se gana y otras se pierde. Y sobre todo, que a veces se gana y se pierde al mismo tiempo. Crecer es aceptar la incertidumbre.

But hell you make for yourself is still hell, maybe

The world's ending. —Maybe sometimes it has to.

Well, Adam thought. I've had my mouth on his bare skin. That seemed to be effective.

What happens when you get older? Do you just forget everything before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines

still amazed at how anyone could pack so much of themselves into lines on a page.

Death is suddenly objectionable to you when the dead has a name you know?

A book, it's a world all on its own, too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. And then it's over and then he'll leave that world forever.

We would have wanted you to like us. We realise now that we probably would have failed.

Yes,' said Jasper, flatly, 'and it was very illuminating. It is, perhaps, less illuminating now.