A. > A.'s Quotes

“That's the kind of person you can get away with killing: someone everybody else wants dead.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“С инстинкта си на пламенно същество тя усещаше, че любовта е трагично и силно чувство, което човек трябваше да уважава дори у глупавите хора.”
― Dimitar Dimov, Тютюн

“Нейната интелигентност я спасява от възможността да попадне в ръцете на кой да е глупав мъж. Това не и пречи обаче да тича бясно по най-просташки удоволствия.”
― Димитър Димов

“As I lay there in Sebastian’s hospital bed and the two of us cried, I wanted to light up the world for him, show him what he meant, come with him, to him, for him. Oh, shit, you’re thinking, but that’s only because you know what happened later. But right then, no one knew anything. And no one asked me, Do you want to? Can you? Or said, We will help you, you can’t do this all by yourself. Because everyone knew this was the only option. There was only me. No one asked if I wanted to save Sebastian, but you all blame me for failing.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“What I do believe is that everything that happens is connected to whatever happened before, like links in a chain.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“I can’t sleep away the pain, sleep is no savior, my dreams leave me exposed for truth.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“if you just expose terrible things, make them visible, they stop being terrible. But in reality, with truly awful things, the opposite is true. Too much sunshine and “truth” and “speaking out” and “putting your feelings into words” and “daring to talk about your problems” helps people see what a monster you are. Your ugly emotions become as glaring as hairy warts.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“I no longer believe that I can stave off catastrophes by putting them into words.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Evil has no meaning. That is the very definition of evil. But just because something hurts doesn’t mean that the reason for the pain is evil.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“If they asked me to choose now, I would have read the part about emptiness. That’s the only part that’s true. Everything is empty and futile. Chasing after the wind. We never get what we want.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Evil doesn’t strike justly.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Ich bin clever genug, um zu wissen, wie sinnlos es ist, clever zu sein, wie wenig es bedeutet und dass es ein Problem ist.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“Only idiots pretend that who you are and what you do don’t matter.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Living happily ever after with the person you love only works in books; “ever after” is only long enough if you’re fictional. And love can’t rescue anyone into eternal life.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“And no one asked me, Do you want to? Can you? Or said, We will help you, you can't do this all by yourself. Because everyone knew this was the only option. There was only me.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“There was always something else in him. It was more than sadness. It wasn't hate; hate is simple, and Sebastian was never easy to understand. I was never afraid of what he might do to me, not even toward the end, but I was always anxious. Even those first weeks were both things, a mixture, difficult, easy and delightful, funny, awful and wonderful.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Störst av allt

“There is only one thing my body remembers more clearly than how much I wanted him and that is how it felt when he was gone.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“I couldn’t help him, I couldn’t, how could I? Sorry. How do you tell a person not to want to die? I will love you when no one else has the strength to. I promise. I will never leave you alone again.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“greatest of all is fear, the terror of dying. Love means nothing when you believe you’re going to die.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“People always think they know what the dead would have wanted.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Love? No, I don’t miss love. Love is not greatest or purest, it’s never a perfect blend, just an impure liquid, the kind you should really sniff before you taste. But the risk is you still might not notice it’s poisonous.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“Because greatest of all is love up until something else becomes even greater.”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“death is just a single heartbeat away from life,”
― Malin Persson Giolito, Quicksand

“What didn't kill me didn't make me stronger; what didn't kill me made me into a victim.
But I made me stronger. I made me into a survivor.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“There is no normal. There is just a bunch of people pretending there is. There's just different levels of pain. Different stages of safe. The biggest con of all is that there's a normal.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I was raised for a kind of slaughter. But I grew into a huntress instead. One who always hits her target. No matter what.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Practically everyone thinks they're smarter than a teenage girl. It's what makes being one so powerful, if you know how to use that giant mistake of an assumption.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou