Dolce Darling > Dolce's Quotes

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Give me the honest asp, who strikes me if I trouble him and not before.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“A golden cage is still a cage.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“That old sickening feeling returned: that every moment of my life I had been a fool.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You are wise,” he said.

“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me

“If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“But I also found my depression tedious - tedious to live through, tedious to explain, tedious to be around. I was bored by my own relentless loop and felt sure I was boring everyone around me.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
― Descartes

“...it is a mark of prudence never to place our complete trust in those who have deceived us even once.”
― DESCARTES

“Why are you doing this?” Eden asked. “Because I love you,” the old man said. It was the first time he had said it. “Don’t you understand that? I’ve loved you from the first moment.”
― Candice Fox, Hades

“Death rarely changes how we feel about someone. Heightens it, more often than not.”
― Jane Harper, The Dry

“Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage.”
― Jane Harper, The Lost Man

“She was smiling in every photo, looked truly happy in none.”
― Jane Harper, Force of Nature