Lexi Castillo > Lexi's Quotes

“El mundo debía ser más grande de lo que siempre había creído para que pudiera desaparecer tanta gente.”
― Dolores Reyes, Cometierra

“Empezaba a ver que los que buscan a una persona tienen algo, una marca cerca de los ojos, de la boca, la mezcla de dolor, de bronca, de fuerza, de espera, hecha cuerpo. Algo roto, en donde vive el que no vuelve.”
― Dolores Reyes, Cometierra

“«Las rosas tienen tanto pétalos como espinas, mi flor oscura. No debes creer que algo es débil porque parece delicado. Muéstrale al mundo tu valentía».”
― Kerri Maniscalco, A la caza de Jack el destripador

“Fingir que no había un monstruo allí no lo haría desaparecer. Solo me volvería más vulnerable a su ataque.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, A la caza de Jack el destripador

“—¿Fingirá que soy tan capaz como un hombre? Por favor, señor, ¡no me dé tan poco valor!”
― Kerri Maniscalco, A la caza de Jack el destripador

“For there are no limits to the stars; their numbers are infinite. Which is precisely why I measure my love for you by them. An amount too boundless to count.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“-Vivir es un riesgo permanente. Sólo los muertos están a salvo, ya lo sabes. Para siempre. [pp. 112]”
― Francesc Miralles, Cuando estuvimos muertos

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Rise, red as the dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I told you to hide your heart once. You should have listened.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Anyone, anything, can betray anyone. Even your own heart.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“That's how hearts get broken, you know. When you believe in promises.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm so unwhole. I don't know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Each aberration of my skin is a song. Press your mouth against me. You will hear so much singing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I'm always losing things.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“...when I look at my arms, I don't think revolutionary. I think sad, and pain, but not revolutionary.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I just want to feel better. My own body is my deepest enemy. It wants, it wants, it wants and when it does not get, it cries and cries and I punish it. How can you live in fear of your own body?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides