Hallie Helen > Hallie Helen's Quotes

“As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Who I am is your mother. This is the truest part of me.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“The thing about identity. There’s your family history, there’s how you see yourself, and then there’s what others see in you. All these elements factor into your identity, like it or not.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“You were never easy, darling difficult sulky you, never diplomatic. You might even have been easy to dislike at times. But no one, absolutely no one, would dare tell me you were hard to love.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“It’s about fear and love, and how they seem to go hand in hand most of the time.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“You never became ordinary to me, my love. You were electric shocks and fire.”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“I always knew who I was with you. You were my shortcut”
― Fredrik Backman, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

“As long as she loves me and I love her, what difference does religion make?”
― Judy Blume, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“It isn’t fair that I have to live with this, but I have to live.”
― Rachel Harrison, Such Sharp Teeth

“I forgot. I’m so used to being reminded how ugly a place the world can be, I forgot it could be beautiful, too.”
― Rachel Harrison, Such Sharp Teeth

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Before that she hadn’t realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“There is no group therapy or psychiatry or community social services for the child who must cope with the thing under the bed or in the cellar every night, the thing which leers and capers and threatens just beyond the point where vision will reach. The same lonely battle must be fought night after night and the only cure is the eventual ossification of the imaginary faculties, and this is called adulthood.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“If a fear cannot be articulated, it can’t be conquered.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“Right now is the time in life that teaches you you’ll get through it even if you hate it.”
― Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

“She tilts her head. Her black eye is a pool of ink. It is a bottomless pit. It is a collapsed star, all density and hunger and relentless gravity, pulling everything it can into its center- to be unraveled, unmade, undone, and unrecognizable. How can anyone survive that kind of love?”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband