Lana > Lana's Quotes

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“You were real to me. Sometimes I thought you were the only real thing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Anything can feel like punishment if it’s taught poorly.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

Girl slips on headphones. World gone.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Besides, sometimes, to resolve desire, it's better to let the thing bloom. To feel this thing, to let it catch you unaware, to hold onto the ache. What is better than believing you are heading towards love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“I think I only appear smart by staying quiet as often as possible.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“You can hide so much, you forget what it's like to be found. ”
― Iain S. Thomas, Every Word You Cannot Say

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I love you enough to never make you choose.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“You're only as happy as your least happy child.”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“Stay on your path Sylvia Plath
don't fall away like all the
others”
― Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

“You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“It's easier to hide in your own darkness, than to emerge, naked and vulnerable, blinking in your own light.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“Language fails us, and sometimes our parents do too. We all fail each other, sometimes small, sometimes big, but look, when we love we trust, and when we fail, we fracture that joint.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“وعظتني نفسي فعلمتني أن لا أطرب لمديح ولا أجزع لمذمة . وقبل أن تعظني نفسي كنت أظل مرتابا في قيمة أعمال وقدرها حتى تنبعث إليها الأيام بمن يقرظها أو يهجوها . أما الآن فقد عرفت أن الأشجار تزهر في الربيع وتثمر في الصيف ولا مطمع لها بالثناء . وتنثر أوراقها في الخريف وتتعرى في الشتاء ولا تخشى الملامة”
― جبران خليل جبران, البدائع والطرائف