Afnan > Afnan's Quotes

“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Everyone is someone's devil.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“I step through the door anyway, knowing that the hard thing and the right thing are usually the same thing.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Now I think these are the three worst things in the world:
1. Waiting
2. Not Knowing
3. Not existing”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“The world can be so complicated for Max. Even when he gets something right, it can still go wrong.”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teach school”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“Maybe we are all somebody's devil.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried”
― Matthew Green, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

“The key to staying lost was to never love anything.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“I love shopping,' she said, almost to herself. 'It's like trying on all the other people you could be.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“There is a rhythm to moving through the world alone.
You discover what you can and cannot live without, the simple necessities and small joys that define a life. Not food, not shelter, not the basic things a body needs—those are, for her, a luxury—but the things that keep you sane. That bring you joy. That make life bearable.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue