Darren > Darren's Quotes

“I am small.

So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.”
― C. Kennedy, Slaying Isidore's Dragons

“That's right, stupid little voice, bash all my hopes and dreams. Shut up and tell me how to start a conversation with someone who doesn't speak.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi

“Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi

“There are tons of kids out there who endure chronic abuse and suffer in silence. They can’t trust anyone, they can’t tell anyone, and they have no idea how to get away from it.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi

“Abuse doesn't define you.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi

“Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.”
― C. Kennedy, Slaying Isidore's Dragons

“Don't try to be brave all at once. Take it in steps.”
― C. Kennedy, Slaying Isidore's Dragons

“Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.”
― C. Kennedy, Ómorphi

“It is strange... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.”
― C. Kennedy, Slaying Isidore's Dragons

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Les psychiatriques sont des gens à qui on explique tout le temps qu'ils n'ont pas ce qu'ils ont et qu'ils ne voient pas ce qu'ils voient, alors ça finit par les rendre dingues.”
― Émile Ajar, Fiche de lecture La Vie devant soi de Romain Gary (complète)

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“• There are beautiful words inside me          
• Winter is not the only season         
• I didn’t die          
• I am alive”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Your first kiss. I wanted it to be mine.”
― Dan Skinner, The Bible Boys

“Faggot, queer, fairy. Those words aren’t taught in a history course. You don’t learn them with the alphabet. Discrimination comes from the circles you’re supposed to trust. The home, the family, the church. They try to convince you God made you in his image, and then would destroy you because you weren’t good enough. That’s a good God? Who comes up with this crap?”
― Dan Skinner, Memorizing You

“I came from a family of physical abuse. He came from one that had a psychological terrorist.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“Sometimes the only way you can get through the deepest pain is to distance yourself.”
― Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something....”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“I had never let myself fantasize about being with someone my own age, because it stopped being a fantasy at that point. It entered the realm of possibility, and that’s where you can really get hurt.”
― Perry Moore, Hero

“Reading is one of the important part of being a person.”
― Perry Moore

“So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me.

I didn't ask to be saved.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Remember having a panic attack isn’t a failure, and not having one isn’t a success. Success is not letting the attacks run your life”
― Heidi Cullinan, Carry the Ocean

“I don’t think people understand about suicidal thoughts. They act as if everyone who makes an attempt is looking for attention.”
― Heidi Cullinan, Carry the Ocean

“Beauty is where the beheld butterfly
disappears from sight.”
― R.H. Peat