P > P's Quotes

“The cost of loneliness is high, she knows, but the cost of loss is higher.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“What the fuck do you know about young women, Maggie thinks. We don't remember what we want to remember. We remember what we can't forget.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

“She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“The only thing the sport gives us are moments. But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?”
― Kate Quinn, The Alice Network

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Sometimes you risk everything for a life worth living, even if you're not the one that'll be alive to see it.”
― Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“[...] Love is unsocial, inadmissible, contagious. [...] It admits communication. Grief for lost love is the worse offence, indictable. It suggests love has value, understanding, generosity, happiness. Tessa is an extreme case. She flaunts it with pride.”
― Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease