Sofia > Sofia's Quotes

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“You're so young. You can eat the whole world, if you want to. - Taxi driver, London, May 2019”
― Milk Teeth

“Mary never committed a sin in her whole life," my teacher said. "And that's why she was chosen to be the mother of God." I held my breath and tried to count all of the sins I had already committed. I would never be chosen and I had barely even begun.”
― Milk Teeth

“I feel a sharp flicker of resentment at the world unfolding for you in ways it could not for me but I swallow it.”
― Milk Teeth

“I have always felt like other people have more right to a space than I do, as though I am not quite the right shape, as though none of it rightfully belongs to me.”
― Milk Teeth

“I wish I knew how to ask for the things I want instead of just swallowing them down, knotted with fear and shame.”
― Milk Teeth

“I envied their lack of self-consciousness, the way they wanted to openly, without trying to hide it. Their needs were thoughtless because they had the means to meet them, so they didn't have to push them down.”
― Milk Teeth

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever - something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Sometimes when I see the two of them playing together at home, I'm amazed. A whole other way of raising children. When I was a child, I always played alone. I thought that was how everyone played.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“The world was transforming itself before my eyes, and I was dying to catch that fever.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Do you think it's true what they say - that parents of only children don't get on very well?" she asked.
I mulled over the idea. But I couldn't work out its cause and effect.
"Where did you hear that?" I asked.
"Somebody said that to me. A long time ago. Parents who don't get on very well end up having only one child. It made me so sad when I heard that.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Frank had never particularly prized kindness in people. His mother hadn't taught him to, he supposed. He'd always been drawn to characters, people with talent or ambition or a taste of fun. The kind of people who, like Frank, tended to put themselves first. Even with Cleo, it was her intelligence and sexual charge he'd been drawn to; he'd never once considered whether she was a good person. Now watching her pull scarves from her bag like a magician flourishing handkerchiefs from a hat, he realized he'd been wrong. Fun was fine when you were young, but as you got older it was kindness that counted, kindness that showed up.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“The waiter nodded and stalked back inside. Why did she feel the need to make everyone, even this waiter, like her? What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“I should have known that she wasn't right for me,' Levi says. 'When she designed our band flyer using Comic Sans.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“That was the thing about New York, Cleo thought as she walked toward the buses. It never knew what you wanted, so it offered you everything.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I'd told him I was someone else. And then I started getting angry that he couldn't see who I really was.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I could recognize him by touch alone; by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― 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 of the sun”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We are all there, goddess and mortal, and the boy who was both”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“To design a game is to imagine the person who will eventually play it”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty. It was impossible to know- were persimmons his favorite fruit, or had they just now become his favorite fruit because they were growing in his own backyard?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The moment you're ready to ask, I'm ready to say yes”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Your Majesty- tugging my ear. Whenever”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Break my heart, break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“I noticed that Dante often took a break from studying his books- and studied me. I thought I was his favorite book”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Augustina Bazterrica

“She spends hours watching television, sleeping, drawing, staring at a fixed point. At times, it seems she's thinking, like she really can.”
― Augustina Bazterrica