Ceci > Ceci's Quotes

“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

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“To be well in your mind you have first to be free.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Always heading west. End of the day marks a new one on the horizon.”
― Kerry Lonsdale, Side Trip

“To be clear, that wasn’t a request. I will gut you like a second-rate fish from the market and spread your entrails across the seven seas as shark chum and deny ever having this conversation if she so much as sheds a single tear over you.”
― Lauren Landish, The Dare

“When kids go through trauma, they do incredible things to survive their situation. Sometimes it means their brains create different stories and other realities to help them cope, elaborate fantasies to make something horrible make sense.”
― Lucinda Berry, Appetite for Innocence

“Sweet girl, we have to talk about the past or it eats our future.”
― C.D. Reiss, Lead Me Back

“Love meant saying you were sorry all the time. Being sorry meant you were learning how to not be careless. Love meant you weren’t afraid of being wrong, because the person you loved made you a better person.”
― C.D. Reiss, Lead Me Back