Francis Roch > Francis's Quotes

“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“It’s the little things, I expect. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It’s beautiful, when you think about it.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“On the other side of us, under the setting sun, the marshes lay flat and endless: green speckled with bronze and brown, glinting with water. I could smell sodden grass and the day’s warmth evaporating. There was a rank moldering note under the scent of moisture, and the vast dying sky above us was paler than it should have been.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“Here the clock in the hall dredged up seconds like stones and dropped them again into the pool of the day, letting each ripple widen before the next one fell.”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“May your darkness be quiet and the light come sooner than you need,”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“You are the thistle in the tender and sensitive arse crack of my life.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Tho I long for the actual sunlight contact between us I miss you like a home. Shine back honey & think of me.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“It’s this place—the absolute separation from DC, the familiar old smells of cedar trees and dried chile de árbol, the sanity of it. The roots. He could go outside and dig his fingers into the springy ground and understand anything about himself.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“So, imagine we’re all born with a set of feelings. Some are broader or deeper than others, but for everyone, there’s that ground floor, a bottom crust of the pie. That’s the maximum depth of feeling you’ve ever experienced. And then, the worst thing happens to you. The very worst thing that could have happened. The thing you had nightmares about as a child, and you thought, it’s all right because that thing will happen to me when I’m older and wiser, and I’ll have felt so many feelings by then that this one worst feeling, the worst possible feeling, won’t seem so terrible. “But it happens to you when you’re young. It happens when your brain isn’t even fully done cooking—when you’ve barely experienced anything, really. The worst thing is one of the first big things that ever happens to you in your life. It happens to you, and it goes all the way down to the bottom of what you know how to feel, and it rips it open and carves out this chasm down below to make room. And because you were so young, and because it was one of the first big things to happen in your life, you’ll always carry it inside you. Every time something terrible happens to you from then on, it doesn’t just stop at the bottom—it goes all the way down.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“IN THE DARKNESS, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“They reached the end of the village a short time later. The buildings stopped, and the road that stretched before them wound its way through the coniferous forest, the scent of pine reminding Wallace of Christmas, a time when all the world seemed to take a breath and forget—even just for a little while—how harsh life could be.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“If we worry about the little things all the time, we run the risk of missing the bigger things.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“He closed his eyes and wished he could go back in time when everything made sense. It hurt more than he expected.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Wallace whispered, “It’s easy to let yourself spiral and fall.” “It is,” Nelson agreed. “But it’s what you do to pull yourself out of it that matters most.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Je me suis glissée sur lui pour entendre son cœur battre entre nos corps. Je l’ai embrassé, j’ai enfoncé mes doigts dans ses muscles, roulé mon ventre sur le sien. Il s’est agrippé à mes hanches et a déposé des baisers sur mes paupières. Nous sommes demeurés ainsi dans la tiédeur de notre abri. Puis il a murmuré: «Tshishatshitin.» C’était la première fois que quelqu’un me disait «Je t’aime».”
― Michel Jean, Kukum

“Quand on vieillit, les souvenirs deviennent des trésors.”
― Michel Jean, Kukum

“But what I want and what my body does are sometimes two different things.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Every step forward is a step closer to home.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Nous seules savons ce qui est bon pour nous. C’est juste que, des fois, on ne cherche pas à la bonne place.”
― Amélie Riopel, Partir de nulle part

“Nous avons besoin, pour la lutte effrayante de la vie, de quelque chose qui demeure, et nous nous emplissons l’esprit de ruines et de faits, dans l’espérance niaise de garder notre place.”
― Oscar Wilde, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

“Ceux qui sont fidèles connaissent seulement le côté trivial de l’amour ; c’est la trahison qui en connaît les tragédies.”
― Oscar Wilde, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

“Ne gaspillez pas l’or de vos jours, en écoutant les sots essayant d’arrêter l’inéluctable défaite et gardez-vous de l’ignorant, du commun et du vulgaire... C’est le but maladif, l’idéal faux de notre âge. Vivez ! vivez la merveilleuse vie qui est en vous ! N’en laissez rien perdre ! Cherchez de nouvelles sensations, toujours ! Que rien ne vous effraie... Un nouvel Hédonisme, voilà ce que le siècle demande. Vous pouvez en être le tangible symbole. Il n’est rien avec votre personnalité que vous ne puissiez faire. Le monde vous appartient pour un temps”
― Oscar Wilde, Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

“Then, one by one, I’d lost my friends to dinners with in-laws or decorating the nursery or the pleasures of a day at home.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“It was just moments like these. When it felt like my world was notifications on my phone.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material