Alina > Alina's Quotes

“Maybe it is always like this. We are granted these tiny windows of time, these small pockets of space, where nothing else intrudes. Maybe that's all we can ever hope to get, together. And maybe, just maybe, it will be enough.”
― Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes

“...it looks like this whole earth was just reborn into an entirely new universe full of possibilities.”
― Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes

“let’s not be the type of people who are afraid to live because we might die.”
― Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes

“It still irks me that I'll probably spend most of my life dividing the people I know into two groups: the people who support me without question and the ones who should.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“But this is your life, and it will stretch out before you, and you are the only person who can make it whatever you want it to be.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“This is how we reveal ourselves: these tiny flashes of discomfort, the reactions we can’t hide.”
― Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

“We’re all bending over backward to get you to crack a smile, because when you smile it feels like the sun coming out.”
― Sarah Henstra, We Contain Multitudes

“I don't know whether to cry or scream or do both. It feels like I've done more than enough of both. And it feels like I haven't done enough.

And at some point, I know I'm going to have to crawl out of this bed and pick up the pieces but right now, it can be just me. Just me, these four walls, and this bed.

The universe doesn't have to exist outside this bedroom, and that's perfectly okay.”
― Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best

“Labels can help people find common ground, can help them connect, with themselves and other people".”
― Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best

“Love at first anxiety attack”
― Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best

“I’m just wondering what the point is.” “Well, that’s the real question, isn’t it?”
― Mason Deaver, I Wish You All the Best

“I'm ready to lose myself,
but I'm not ready to lose you.
I'm ready to find myself,
But I'm not ready for you to know what I find.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“The thing about possibilities: there are some you want much more than others. Or only one you want much more than everything else.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“The heart is a treacherous beast, but it means well.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“I just want all my friends to be happy. And sometimes you have to do that one friend at a time.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“Empathy is wonderful, but you can still overdose on it if you try too much to fast.”
― Nina LaCour, You Know Me Well

“No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.”
― David Levithan, You Know Me Well

“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“But I do think that when we choose the easy path, where people or society reward us for being what they want us to be, against who we really are, a kind of death occurs. To the soul.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“I think it's okay to just say who you are without it being final or something. I mean, none of us are finished products. We change. We keep changing. We won't be finished products 'til the day we die.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“The idea that because things are worse somewhere else, you’re not allowed to have issues in your life. That’s what people who are trying to avoid having normal feelings say.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“Anyway, my whole thing is, whatever path I'm on, I'm on. I'm not going to avoid it because it's harder for the world, or even harder for me. I'm like, I gotta be me, you know?”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“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

“Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“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

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they’re inaccessible. You must invent an entirely new system.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue