Suzan > Suzan's Quotes

“I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.”
― Brenda Joyce, An Impossible Attraction

“Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.”
― Kurt Cobain, Journals

“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“There are two types of understanding in this world. There's the kind that comes from the reading and the hearing, and it doesn't penetrate the skin. It is surface knowledge, like a soft blanket that can be placed over the shoulders. And then there's the understanding that comes from doing. That kind of understanding is not soft. It is water that soaks into the rocks and earth, and makes the seeds grow. It is messy, and painful, and impossible to hold.”
― Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty

“There is so much to say about a past. It's a vein of gold through a mountain, leading to an incontrovertible stone heart of truth. But the future is a horizon - a faintly visible line that will promise much, and always remain to far away to touch.”
― Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty

“The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.”
― Aliya Whiteley, The Beauty

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

“شك دارم به ترانه اي كه زنداني و زندانبان همزمان ميخوانند”
― حسين پناهي

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Heeft een strijder van het licht eenmaal zijn taak volbracht en zijn intenties in daden omgezet, dan heeft hij verder niets meer te vrezen: hij heeft gedaan wat hij doen moest. Hij heeft zich niet door angst laten verlammen - ook al treft de pijl geen doel, de strijder zal nieuwe kans krijgen, omdat hij niet laf is geweest.”
― Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. (Fight it) by speaking the truth. If you speak the truth, you will be able to face whatever comes.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Something I chose to forget because it didn’t fit in with how shit everything was.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“We are the choices we make.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls