Sofia Leão > Sofia's Quotes

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I have found so much beauty in the dark,
as I have found a lot of horror in the light.”
― Azereth Skivel

“Los fantasmas son reales. Y no siempre vienen los que uno llama.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Nuestra parte de noche

“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“But the truth is, death is everywhere. Death comes for the roses and the apples, it comes for the mice and the birds. It comes for us all. Why should death stop us from living?”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Everything casts a shadow," he begins. "Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“If you won't leave me, don't leave me alone. Not even if you die. Follow me as a ghost, haunt me.”
― Mariana Enríquez, Our Share of Night

“I had always felt safe in a library, as if the books were there to protect me, like a fortress of words, thoughts and learning.”
― Anya Bergman, The Witches of Vardø