Natalie D.C. > Natalie's Quotes

“Hello, I hope somebody is listening...If nobody is listening, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“I am a boy and a girl and a witch all wrapped into one very strange, flimsy, indecisive body. Do you think my body couldn't decide what it wanted to be?”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
― Anonymous, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Fear is not fear. It is excitement afraid of its own light.”
― Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend

“It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“We all want to be in the room where it happens, we want to be part of the things that matter to us, but no two people have the exact same collection of things that matter. Nowadays, I don't so much want to be in the room where it happens, but I do really want to help other people choose the right rooms, and help them realize that they really are a part of things that matter. Because when we feel like none of the rooms we are in matter, that's when we're really lost.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Here us is, I thought, two old fools left over from love, keeping each other company under the stars,”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“I am waiting for this starving land to open up and swallow me.”
― Moriel Rothman-Zecher, Sadness Is a White Bird

“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“A cage is a cage even if gilded.”
― Somaiya Daud, Mirage

“Knowing the facts doesn't help me picture the truth.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“...I think I'm just scared that if I show the world my belly, it will devour me. And so I wear my armor of cynicism, and hide behind the great walls of irony, and only glimpse beauty with my back turned to it, through the Claude grass.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

“Maybe if I was more patient with certain deaths, I would be more ready for the lives that come after them.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

“Leaving didn't make me sad; on the contrary, the exhilarating prospect of trading my dreary, uneventful life for something new was, at long last, within reach. What was saddening was the realization that, in time, we stand in emptied houses to learn we've never made a mark.”
― David Hopen, The Orchard

“You have to be with other people...in order to live at all.”
― Philip K. Dick

“Because it's hard to always be on the outside looking in, looking at people, never with them, your life passing you by, everything passing you by.”
― Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

“It's like I'm leaving a part of myself in Algeria, but every time I tell myself I won't be going back.”
― Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière

“How hard the believers make it to get into heaven, I thought, when they have all this right here.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

“Getting on the train felt like both an escape and a betrayal.”
― Melissa Chadburn, A Tiny Upward Shove

“IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE”
― Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing

“I want to be dying for, not dying of”
― Ennis Rook Bashe, Beautiful Malady: Poems

“There’s no escape from the shadows that mount, inexorably, in this darkening season. Nor can we escape the shadows our families cast. That said, there are times I miss the pleasant shade a companion might provide.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts