Lucia > Lucia's Quotes

“I realize only one person will be damaged beyond repair if Peeta dies. Me.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say.
"Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
― C.G. Jung

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung

“Always remember that your path is unique. The essence of it is universal—this awareness, this presence is common to everyone. But how this process unfolds for each individual is completely unique. So you have to find out what’s working for you and how it is working for you.”
― Jon Bernie, The Unbelievable Happiness of What Is: Beyond Belief to Love, Fulfillment, and Spiritual Awakening

“Too many of us move through our lives with our true selves buried below layers of repressed emotion. With so much energy channeled toward sustaining the repression, there is little left over for the deeper questions. The consequences of our evasion are profound. Our stockpiles toxify into a cache of weapons that turn inward against the self: quick fix, long suffering. As Rumi said, “Most people guard against the fire, and so end up in it.” This is the power of then. If we don’t deal with our stuff, it deals with us.”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“embrace and fully ‘excavate’ our Shadow, the seeming darkness within. Only by fully honoring all aspects of our journey (every wound, every person, every trauma) can we begin to accept and eventually honor all of who we are.” —JOHN POLLARD,”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. —SIOUX PROVERB”
― Jeff Brown, Soulshaping: A Journey of Self-Creation

“They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“But I'm not special", Bailey says, "not the way they are. I'm not anyone important."
"I know", Celia said, "you are not destined or chosen. I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it is not true. You are in the right place, at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that is enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“It is just that she was fifteen once for the first time, and Peter walked across her heart and left his footprints there.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“My experience has taught me that what you know isn’t always important.”
“What is important?”
“Living and growing,” Mrs. Wheatley said with finality. “Living your life.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.”
― Richard Rohr

“I wasn't unstoppable, but I was harder to stop.”
― Evy Poumpouras, Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

“Most people guard against going into the fire and so end up in it. Those who love the water of pleasure and make it their devotion are cheated with this reversal. The trickery goes further. The voice of the fire tells the truth, sayin I am not fire. I am fountainhead. Come into me and don’t mind the sparks. If you are a friend of the presence, fire is your water.”
― Rumi, A Year With Rumi