Sunset > Sunset's Quotes

“The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall,
the moon would have never let him go.”
― Nina Mouawad

“Van Gogh couldn't have painted
the stars in your eyes.”
― Nina Mouawad, Blue Sun

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I couldn’t stand her love, which did not reject even the ugliest of my faces. I couldn’t stand it because I had been afraid of being loved from the beginning.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“Those were the days when I believed my life would turn out special. I secretly sneered at cowards who compromised with reality. But this silly arrogance of mine is the reason why I am nothing now.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“had suffered pain beyond her imagination. Some people break up after a big fight, but there are also people who drift incrementally apart until they can’t face each other anymore. The latter stay longer in your memory.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile

“You had to be a go‑getter in your twenties more than any other time, where being a go‑getter meant building a safe career as quickly as possible or die trying.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile

“Memory is a talent. You were born with it,” my grandma told me when I was young. “But it’s a painful one. So, try to make yourself a little less sensitive. Be extra cautious with happy memories, my dear. Happy memories seem like jewels when in fact they’re burning charcoal. You’ll hurt yourself if you hold on to them, so let go and dust off your hands. Child, they are no gift.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile

“Shoko once told me that standing on the shore made her feel like she was standing on the outskirts of the world. As if she'd been pushed away from the center, away from people, until she reached the edge of the sea that was itself pushed away from the great ocean.”
― Choi Eunyoung

“Things looked flawlessly beautiful from afar.”
― Choi Eunyoung

“The fact that I could no longer see him became clearer by the minute. Yet, the clearer it became, the less it felt like fact.”
― Choi Eunyoung

“If you couldn't share someone's pain,, if you didn't have the guts to survive a difficult stretch with them, it was better to choose heartlessness over half-hearted affection.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“We should distinguish love from affection.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“Time passes, people leave, we become alone again. If we don't accept that fact, memory erodes the present and exhausts the mind until it ages us and ails us.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“I wish you the blessing of oblivion, and that you will find the strength to exist moment by moment.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“(…) That’s how you become an adult. No one thought the examine the bruises inside her. The incident had nothing to do with her, in other people’s lives, and not one of them suspected it had damaged her.”
― Choi Eunyoung

“The attitudes they adopted out of consideration for each other slowly drove them apart, and the bond they had forged during the time they lived together could no longer sustain their relationship.”
― Choi Eunyoung, Shoko's Smile: Stories

“and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything forever”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“i measure time by the days i've spent away from you”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Thank you for being here, for being witness to my vastness.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“I believe in the goodness in me that it's firm enough to plant a flag in, or a rosebud, or to build a new life.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“The universe exists because we are aware of it.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Don’t make me be resilient
i so want to be soft
if u let me be myself
u will be the first one who ever did.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Stars. Or rather, the drains of heaven – waiting. Little holes. Little centuries opening just enough for us to slip through.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“& so what–if my feathers
are burning. I
never asked for flight.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds