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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.
Love, hope, fear, faith—these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character —Robert Browning, Paracelsus
Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”
“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,”
“There’s plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
“Dreams can be dangerous things.”
“Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.”
Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.”
“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don’t want to do, I pretend I’m a character from a book. It’s easier to know what they would do.”
“The dead can tell no tales,”
Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.”
change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It’s those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered—that is when we feel the greatest pain.
It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”
“What is one person’s pleasure is another’s poison, don’t you find?”
“I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiraling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true—If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Man’s flaw is that he can deteriorate; and his virtue is that he can improve. —Hasidic saying
I had always thought one could not be truly lost if one knew one’s own heart.
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone.
You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
“Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past,
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don’t want to do, I pretend I’m a character from a book. It’s easier to know what they would do.
