Myna > Myna's Quotes

“There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it.
To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.
Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.
There has been an earthquake in my life.
Catastrophic, civilization-ending.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“My head is totally gone; there is nothing left but my heart.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“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

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“..the best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You fear you will fail at the very thing you were born for. And your fear torments you...instead of shunning your fear, you must let it speak and listen carefully to what it's trying to tell you. It will give you good counsel.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Deep Blue

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.”
― Stephen King

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Ich bin jung, ich bin zwanzig Jahre alt; aber ich kenne vom Leben nichts anderes als die Verzweiflung, den Tod, die Angst und die Verkettung sinnlosester Oberflächlichkeit mit einem Abgrund des Leidens. Ich sehe, dass Völker gegeneinander getrieben werden und sich schweigend, unwissend, töricht, gehorsam, unschuldig töten.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“Something inside my chest breaks loose and falls. It never stops falling.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“He clenches his fist against my back and speaks into my neck. His voice is warm.
I didn't mean to take it this far..
I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“He’s kissing me everywhere, squeezing me, running his fingers over places no one else has touched”
― R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing?”
― R. A. Nelson, Teach Me

“I want to be alone…with someone else who wants to be alone.”
― Dimitri Zaik

“There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.”
― Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

“Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy