Geri > Geri's Quotes

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can’t have and wanting what you shouldn’t want. And I shouldn’t want you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of his mouth on hers, all the things he could never say out loud: I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“There is no pretending",Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you,and I will love you until I die,and if there's a life after that,I'll love you then."
She caught her breath.He had said it-the words there was no going back from.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“...аз съм от тези, които смятат, че големите неща започват от малките. Детето е малко, но то съдържа човека, мозъкът е малък, но в него се съхранява мисълта, окото е само една точка, но обгръща пространствата.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils, La dame aux camélias

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“How can something so wrong feel so right?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want.No one, Maya, no one can ever take that away from us.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“How-how can we make it against the whole world?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window–do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out?
At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“
You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage.
For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Before there was anything, there was Lochan.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we’re all the same.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden