Lilibeth Teixeira > Lilibeth's Quotes

“Sometimes I close my eyes and paint these walls a different color. I imagine I’m wearing warm socks and sitting by a fire. I imagine someone’s given me a book to read, a story to take me away form the torture of my own mind. I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind. I want to run, to feel the wind tug at my hair. I want to pretend that this is just a story within a story. That this cell is just a scene, that these hands don’t belong to me, that this window leads to somewhere beautiful if only I could break it. I pretend this pillow is clean, I pretend this bed is soft. I pretend and pretend and pretend until the world becomes so breathtaking behind my eyelids that I can no longer contain it. But then my eyes fly open and I’m caught around the throat by a pair of hands that won’t stop suffocating suffocating suffocating. My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound. My mind, I hope, will soon be found.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“There’s something simmering inside of me. Something I’ve never dared to tap into, something I’m afraid to acknowledge. There’s a part of me clawing to break free from the cage I’ve trapped it in, banging on the doors of my heart, begging to be free. Begging to let go. Every day I feel like I’m reliving the same nightmare. I open my mouth to shout, to fight, to swing my fists, but my vocal cords are cut, my arms are heavy and weighted down as if trapped in wet cement and I’m screaming but no one can hear me, no one can reach me and I’m caught. And it’s killing me. I’ve always had to make myself submissive, subservient, twisted into a pleading, passive mop just to make everyone else feel safe and comfortable. My existence has become a fight to prove I’m harmless, and I’m not a threat, that I’m capable of living among other human beings without hurting them. And I’m so tired I’m so tire I’m so tired I’m so tired and sometimes I get so angry. I don’t know what’s happening to me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer

“I clung to something like hope, to a thread of maybes and possiblys and perhapses.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“But time is beyond our finite comprehension. It’s endless, it exists outside of us; we cannot run out of it or lose track of it or find a way to hold on to it. Time goes on even when we do not.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Words, will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“If nobody changes the world, if nobody works to make it better, then we stagnate.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I'm checking my pockets for spare words and sentences but I'm finding none, not an adverb, not a preposition or even a dangling participle because there doesn't exist a single response to such an outlandish request.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I wonder at my incapacity for easy banter, smooth conversation, empty words to fill awkward moments. I don't have a closet filled with umms and ellipses ready to insert at the beginnings and ends of sentences. I don't know how to be a verb, an adverb, any kind of modifier. I'm a noun through and through.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert

“One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“Hope works like that. It hinds and blends in, only to pop out when you least expect it. It's always a surprise, something you step on, trip over, or stumble on by accident. It hides in the divots of our lives. in the loneliest valleys. It's like a child, always playing hide and seek to keep our lives unpredictable. Just when we're about to give up, hope turns on, like light, to guide out way.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”
― Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and the Great World

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy