Paige > Paige's Quotes

“She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Am I not merciful?”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“They are beyond me.
These humans.
With their brief lives and their tiny dreams and their hopes that seem as fragile as glass.
Until you see them by starlight, that is.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Are you afraid?"

"Yes."

"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."

"I am still afraid.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“When the light that kisses the back of her eyes were birthed, her ancestors were not yet born. How many human lives have ended in the time it took that light to reach her?

How many people have loved only to have lost? How countless, the hopes that have died?

But not this one.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“stay strong through your pain
grow flowers from it
you have helped me
grow flowers out of mine so
bloom beautifully
dangerously
loudly
bloom softly
however you need
just bloom”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i do not want to have you
to fill the empty parts of me
i want to be full on my own

i want to feel so complete
i could light a whole city
and then
i want to have you
cause the two of
us combined
could set
it on fire”
― Rupi Kaur

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur

“you might not have been my first love
but you were the love that made
all other loves seem
irrelevant”
― Rupi Kaur

“the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- there is nothing purer than that”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you look at me and cry
everything hurts

i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“why is it
that when the story ends
we begin to feel all of it”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself.   - how’s that for a happily ever after?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“i’m pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s.   - women are some kind of magic.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“the love
some girls
have for
other girls
is
so gentle
& so soft
& so fucking
beautiful,
&
these girls
deserve
to have
better stories
than the ones
where they
are murdered
because they love
with too much
of their
hearts.

-love is never a weakness.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“all of the oceans
& galaxies
did not
conspire together to
create me
just so i could
reproduce for
you.

-Startling Fact #1”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“you have
been the
star
of each
& every
one of
my
nightmares.

"- you left but you stayed.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock &
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s a m e?

"- did it really happen if i can't remember it?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“he promised to fix me & he left me more s h a t t e r e d than i had been before.   - but now i’ve got gold in the cracks.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One