“It’s a common mistake to assume that someone is weak because they are accommodating. If you think this, you might be the type who has no idea how much effort—how much strength—it takes to put up with your nonsense.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Art - and all stories are art, even the ones about real people - is about what it does to you.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Una persona es mas que sus experiencias, apiladas como piedras... Nuestros mejores momentos son la base en que nos apoyamos para tratar de alcanzar el cielo.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“She remembered days of exhaustion when all she’d wanted was a kind word, a teardrop’s worth of empathy.
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Choice. She had a choice.
'You don’t have to be like her,' Yumi thought. 'You really don’t.'
Such a novel idea, and so much harder to do than she would ever have assumed. Still, Yumi forced out the words. The ones akin to those she always wished she could have heard.
“It’s all right,” she whispered. “I know you’re trying. That’s what matters.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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