Samantha Sotto Yambao > Quotes

“Books do not find value when they are written. They find value when they are read. Every book here is both worthless and priceless at the same time. It depends on who you ask.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Life is a barter of choice and consequences.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“You can't return to a place that no longer exists, luv.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“My dear," Rose said, "you might be surprised at how much happiness you can find in the pages of the shortest love stories. Unlike penises, their length truly does not count.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“... I'll always have something that not even time can take away. Pain. ...because when I've forgotten everything else, I'll feel that ache... that tightness in my throat... that heaviness in my chest... and know that I loved a woman once and she loved me back. It's proof that I existed and so did she.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Losing your way is oftentimes the only way to find something you did not know you were looking for.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from and where you are going”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“It appears that you were meant to be mine only for a little while.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Happiness does not exist in a place. It lives in every breath we take. You need to choose to take it in, over and over again.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“There is something beautiful about autumn that makes things more beautiful. Out of all the seasons, it is the most honest about time. Summer and spring blind you to its passing with their colorful displays. Winter paints over everything in white. But autumn is not shy about things coming to an end. It welcomes it, waving leafy flags of red, yellow, and gold. It celebrates its sadness.” Hana Ishikawa”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“I have every reason to be sad, but I don't have any reason to mourn. People grieve when things end. Nothing has ended tonight. One of us has simply gone ahead as we always knew it would have to be.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Why did I leave you? I loved you too much to stay.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“I'm sorry, but you just can't fit fabulous into a backpack.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“All choices intersect.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Things couldn't end if she didn't let them begin.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Dying is not the real tragedy. Forgetting is.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“I didn't want the 'ever' that came after happily. I didn't... don't want to be the one left behind.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“There are other ways to live forever.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Just because things have been done a certain way doesn’t mean that’s how they should always be. And if I fail, so what? That just means I’m eliminating a wrong turn and getting closer to the right one.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“A kiss can be dreadfully terrifying for the males of our species, I'm afraid." Rose said knowingly. "Sex is easy. All they really need is a few good thrusts. But when they kiss, they open themselves up and let you in. And that, my dear, makes some men's balls shrink to the size of raisins."

Shelley snorted with laughter.

Dex strode up to her. "Did someone say raisins? I'm starving."

"You might try asking Max for some," Shelley said. "I'm sure he has at least two.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“That is why I taught you how to trade, because that's what life is - a barter of choices and consequences.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“Things don’t have to make sense for them to be real.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“As the body rots, so does the cage that traps us in our wordly concerns. When my legs become too weak to carry my body, I stopped pacing with worry. When my fingers became twisted, I stopped pointing blame. When I lost my sight, I stopped seeing illusions. It may be dark in the pot that I am simmering in, but I can see more clearly than I have ever seen in my life.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“We had told ourselves a lie for so long that we made it real. We trapped ourselves in a myth that we forgot we created.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

“I said you weren’t inconsequential. No one is. We change at least one person’s life just by being born. If you don’t believe me, go ask your mother. The fellows who write history books may not think that’s so special. I happen to disagree. Isabelle and her family may be long gone, but because they lived, regardless of how small their lives may have been, I believe they are worth remembering, even if only by strangers.

- BEFORE EVER AFTER”
― Samantha Sotto

“But I am half a man, wholly in love, and so I have chosen to let you leave me instead.”
― Samantha Sotto, Before Ever After

“I have learned that there is nothing to be gained from stealing other people’s happiness. No matter how much you have stolen, it is not something that you can ever use for yourself.”
― Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon