Kate > Kate's Quotes

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“If you gotta go, go with a smile”
― J.D. Estrada

“I probably won't be able to look forward to summer for a long time. My chest will hurt. My tears will be overflowing. But this warmth in my hands and these summer memories will live on in my heart.”
― Yuki Midorikawa, 蛍火の杜へ [Hotarubi no Mori e]

“I want to discover... what I can do with my life.”
― Yuki Midorikawa

“I'm painfully aware of how helpless I am. But it slips my mind... and I wish for things I can't have.”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 5

“Life is full of new challenges. I'll take it one small step at a time.”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 8

“I'm no good at this. I can't get a read on people. Why can't I ever see their hearts clearly?”
― Yuki Midorikawa

“Yeah. I'm sorry I can never talk about it. Fear...and anxiety...all that stuff...it's hard to talk about.”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 8

“But I can't LET things happen to me anymore. I have to take action!”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 8

“The more fun I have... the more I care about the things in my life... the more anxious I become. Can this life go on forever?”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 11

“There's a lot of things... I don't know what to do about...”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 13

“Even with a family...it feels lonely sometimes.”
― Yuki Midorikawa, Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 13

“Will I ever find...what I'm looking for? Maybe never. The way to be a nicer person... the "correct" path in life...”
― Yuki Midorikawa, 夏目友人帳 17 [Natsume Yūjinchō 17]

“Is this... something to be scared of? Or will we be okay? I remember this feeling. The most frightening thing is not knowing.”
― Yuki Midorikawa, 夏目友人帳 20 [Natsume Yūjinchō 20]

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“…I've had a bad week."
What's happened?"
Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.”
― Banana Yoshimoto

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
― Somerset Maugham

“No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil