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  • #1
    Warsan Shire
    “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #2
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • #3
    James Frey
    “Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work. ”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #4
    Kahlil Gibran
    “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #5
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.”
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

  • #6
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #7
    Kahlil Gibran
    “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #7
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #8
    Kahlil Gibran
    “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #9
    James Frey
    “I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familiar place. A place I don’t talk about or acknowledge exists. A place where there is only me. A place that I hate. I am alone. Alone here and alone in the world. Alone in my heart and alone in my mind. Alone everywhere, all the time, for as long as I can remember. Alone with my Family, alone with my friends, alone in a Room full of People. Alone when I wake, alone through each awful day, alone when I finally meet the blackness. I am alone in my horror. Alone in my horror. I don’t want to be alone. I have never wanted to be alone. I fucking hate it. I hate that I have no one to talk to, I hate that I have no one to call, I hate that I have no one to hold my hand, hug me, tell me everything is going to be all right. I hate that I have no one to share my hopes and dreams with, I hate that I no longer have any hopes or dreams, I hate that I have no one to tell me to hold on, that I can find them again. I hate that when I scream, and I scream bloody murder, that I am screaming into emptiness. I hate that there is no one to hear my scream and that there is no one to help me learn how to stop screaming. . . More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn’t alone.”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #10
    James Frey
    “There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #11
    James Frey
    “The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel.
    I broke something, Old Man.
    How badly is it broken?
    It's in a million little pieces.
    I'm afraid I can't help you.
    Why?
    There's nothing you can do.
    Why?
    It can't be fixed.
    Why?
    It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #12
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size. You were a boy, and already it was certain you wouldn't be a mother and it was likely you wouldn't become a manicurist or a kindergarten teacher. Then you started to grow up and everything you did closed the tunnel in some more. You broke your arm climbing a tree and you ruled out being a baseball pitcher. You failed every math test you ever took and you canceled any hope of being a scientist. Like that. On and on through the years until you were stuck. You'd become a baker or a librarian or a bartender. Or an accountant. And there you were. I figured that on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #13
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #14
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #15
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #16
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I shall quit your vessel on the ice-raft which brought me hither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile, and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch, who would create such another as I have been. I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense, will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness.”
    Mary Shelley

  • #18
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #19
    Andrea Gibson
    “and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath
    the first time his fingers touched the keys
    the same way a soldier holds his breath
    the first time his finger clicks the trigger.
    We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.”
    Andrea Gibson

  • #20
    James Frey
    “The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.”
    James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

  • #21
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #22
    Khaled Hosseini
    “The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #23
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • #24
    Warsan Shire
    “You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #27
    Toni Morrison
    “Lonely was much better than alone.”
    Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

  • #28
    T.S. Eliot
    “For I have known them all already, known them all—
    Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
    I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
    T.S. Eliot, T. S. Eliot Reading: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Others

  • #29
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #30
    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets



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