Cassandra Yorke > Cassandra's Quotes

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“My father was a great literary teacher. He taught me the meaning of pain. Pain without reason.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“As the soul wanes, form appears.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If you wanted to disappear, this would be the place to do it. Outside the city limits, the nights are dark and old, and people who vanish are never seen again.”
― Cassandra Yorke, Mary, Everything