Arina > Arina's Quotes

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And anyway, there is no comfort here on Earth. There is pretending, there are words, but there is no peace. Nothing is good here. Nothing. Every place you go on Earth, there is more nonsense.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I hated them for not worshiping me. Had they no idea of my sacrifice? There I was, perfectly wonderful, and nobody would see that.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“On a good day, every small thing is enchanting. Everything is a miracle. There is no emptiness. There is no need for forgiveness or escape or medicine. I hear only the wind in the trees, and my devils hatching their sacral plans, fusing all the shattered pieces together into a blanket of ice. I have found that it's under that ice that I can feel I am just another normal person. In the dark and cold, I am at 'peace.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I guess I have a lot of emotion stored up. But it's nothing bad. It's love. It's just love rotting up inside of me . . . That's it . . . I have too much love, I think, and nobody to give it to.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“My brain hurts and I cry all the time. I don't want to be here on Earth for one moment longer.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I tried to express the idea of mind over matter to Takashi.
"If you believe something, really and truly, it becomes reality," I said. "Don't you think?"
"I believe in death," was Takashi's reply.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“I come from some other place. It's not like a real place on Earth or something I could point to on a map, if I even had a map of this other place, which I don't. There's no map because the place isn't a place like something to be near or in or at. It's not somewhere or anywhere, but it's not nowhere either. There is no where about it.
I don't know what it is. But it certainly isn't this place, here on Earth, with all you silly people. I wish I knew what it was, not because I think it would be great to tell you about it; I just miss it so much.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“It was the most beautiful place I have ever seen. It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Arthur lives in a permanent state of disorientation like a low-grade fever, the question hanging over everything being How did I get from there to here?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“When he tells people in Toronto that he's from British Columbia, they'll invariably say something about how they like Vancouver, as though that glass city four hours and two ferries to the southeast of his childhood home has anything to do with the island where he grew up.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“And that's my comfort -- that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was REAL and not merely a dream?”
― Craig Thompson, Blankets

“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment