Chau > Chau's Quotes

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“We're all weird and damaged in our own way. You're not the only one.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“A dream is not reality, but who's to say which is which?”
― Alice Through the Looking Glass

“Uncle Etienne says heaven is like a blanket babies cling to.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Who knew love could kill you?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Your heart is stronger than any of the hurts inflicted. Even the ones that were self-inflicted." - Ezra”
― David Levithan, Take Me With You When You Go

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring.”
― Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl

“If you’re used to people being shitty, it’s hard to accept niceness. Your instinct is to fuck it up. And run the hell away.”
― David Levithan, Take Me with You When You Go

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Life is terrible and beautiful, isn’t it? It’s the best/worst at the exact same time, all possibilities at once.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles