Martine Murray > Quotes

“I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.”
― Martine Murray, How to Make a Bird

“There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.”
― Martine Murray, How To Make A Bird

“When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?”
― Martine Murray, The Wilful Eye

“In the impermanence of life, it was impossible to accept the foreverness of death.”
― Martine Murray, How To Make A Bird

“But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you.”
― Martine Murray, How To Make A Bird

“Love was life's secret purpose.”
― Martine Murray, How To Make A Bird

“But underneath it there was not a sound, there was nothing that even whimpered or budged in our tunnel and it seemed Harry and me were tightly sealed inside something, like two secret letters lying next to each other in an envelope.”
― Martine Murray

“Tekrar gelecek misin?" Molly'nin sesi zayıf ve titrek çıkmıştı. Yalnız kalmaktan korktuğundan değildi. Anne ağacın dallarında uyurken kendini güvende hissediyordu; hem de hiçbir yerde olmadığı kadar. Daha çok, kendisini yalnız hissettiğinden öyle çıkmıştı sesi, hayatınız diğerlerininkinden çok farklı olduğu zaman hissettiğiniz türde bir yalnızlıktı bu. Pim yanındayken, derdini onunla paylaştığını hissediyordu.”
― Martine Murray, Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars

“A list of things you might not hear: eylash opening on the pillow, the appearance of a star, a leaf leaving a tree, a hand in your hair, a lie being withheld, a tear's journey from eye to shoe, air becoming blue, longing.”
― Martine Murray, How To Make A Bird

“I don't know anyone else who could dream a world where nothing ends.”
― Martine Murray, Marsh and Me

“Guitarists always start in the bedroom”
― Martine Murray, Marsh and Me

“Molly sırtını dikleştirdi ve bir anlığına kendini bir atın üstünden dünyaya bakarken hayal etti; onu kurtarmaya hazırdı; kalbinin küt küt atmasına, ne tür bir karanlık yaşanırsa yaşansın, karanlığın içinde parlamaya hazırdı.”
― Martine Murray, Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars

“I like playing my guitar when I expect nothing from it.”
― Martine Murray, Marsh and Me

“Her şey dönüşecek, değişecek ve dengede duracak gibi görünüyordu. Molly kendini hazır hissetti. Fakat ne için, emin değildi. Ama içinde bir şey açılmıştı sanki.
Hayatın tuhaf bir düzeni vardı ve onu kendi etraflarında hissedebiliyordu.”
― Martine Murray, Molly and Pim and the Millions of Stars

“I sing just to sing it all to the surface. All the things we can't hold on to: life as it once was and isn't any longer, I guess.”
― Martine Murray, Marsh and Me

“When a lie is not for yourself it's easier to say it.”
― Martine Murray, Marsh and Me