Maddie Mortimer > Quotes

“It is a shame, such a shame, Harry thought,
that to be a human is to be one thing, to be
contained, to have these walls of skin and a singular sense of self that sloshes and slaps around inside of us like water on the inside of a well.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“The only thing worse than death is knowledge of it coming”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“For we inherit the haunts of our mothers;
we are left with the guests they let in.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“But lovers are notoriously reckless with each other's insides. Even if it seems on skin-surface that all is well. That love is gentle.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“Ölüm bir yaşamı kaybetmek, ama seslenecek birini bulmaktır aynı zamanda.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“Birini sevmektense özlemek daha kolaydır. Pişmanlık duymak, harekete geçmekten kolaydır.”
― Maddie Mortimer

“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
― Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies