Nora > Nora's Quotes

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”
― Alyson Noel, Saving Zoë

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

“Everything...affects everything”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“LADY LAZARUS

I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it--

A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot

A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?--

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me

And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments.
The peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand and foot--
The big strip tease.
Gentlemen, ladies

These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.

The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shut

As a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.

It's easy enough to do it in a cell.
It's easy enough to do it and stay put.
It's the theatrical

Comeback in broad day
To the same place, the same face, the same brute
Amused shout:

'A miracle!'
That knocks me out.
There is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart--
It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus,
I am your valuable,
The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek.
I turn and burn.
Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash--
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there--

A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.

-- written 23-29 October 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

“i think "i miss you" means even more than "i love you". because you can love a lot of people but there are really just a few you can miss”
― Camila Cabello

“That was the day that I learned that people always leave. If they aren’t cheating on one another, they’re dying.”
― Kimberly Lauren, Beautiful Broken Rules

“Be silly, be honest, and be kind,”
― Kimberly Lauren, Beautiful Broken Rules

“You're my heart. You don't walk away from your heart," he whispered in my ear.”
― Kimberly Lauren, Beautiful Broken Rules

“For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet - there is such a thing as a perfect day.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I was here. TF.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’m floating.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“And in that moment there’s nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The best thing about reading is to escape from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“If you aren’t affected
somehow, even in the slightest bit, you aren’t
reading the right book.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“It's ironic really, that the man who hates the world is most loved by it”
― Anna Todd

“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“I love you too.”

“Don’t say too, it sounds like you’re just agreeing with me.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Whatever the hell our souls are made of hers and mine are the same.”
― Anna Todd, After

“You shouldn’t
date someone if your heart is owned by someone
else. It doesn’t work, trust me.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“Pain is one of those hideous places that once visited you have to fight your way out and even when you think you have escaped you are permanently branded”
― Anna Todd

“You aren’t the one who was ruining me, I did it myself. I changed and you changed, but you changed for the better, I didn’t”
― Anna Todd

“I am rooted, but I flow. All gold, flowing …”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her to confuse
anger with kindness
which seems like a good idea
till she grows up to
trust men who hurt her
cause they look so much
like you.”
― Rupi Kaur

“The way I see it, if you want to cheat on someone, you should just break up with them. Cheating is for cowards.”
― Penelope Ward, RoomHate

“Sometimes the thing we fear more than anything, is really what our soul craves the most.”
― Penelope Ward, RoomHate

“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places