P.A. > P.A.'s Quotes

“Y la polilla que seguía la luz se dejó morir, se rindió y abandonó sus intentos de alcanzarla, se resignó a verla a la distancia, tan hermosa e inalcanzable; un recordatorio permanente de una posible felicidad destruida, imposible de obtener, imposible de mantener; simplemente imposible.”
― P.A. Steller, Veritas

“We gather the things we learned, and they don't nearly add up to fill the space of a life.
You will miss the taste of Froot Loops.
You will miss the sound of traffic.
You will miss your back against his.
You will miss him stealing the sheets.
Do not ignore these things.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
― Leonard Bernstein

“It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Literature is my Utopia”
― Helen Keller

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”
― Oscar Wilde, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
― Samuel Butler, The Note Books Of Samuel Butler

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”
― Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden

“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Read to your heart's content. Though if you are a reader, the heart is never content.”
― Jenny Hubbard, Paper Covers Rock

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“What i want is for what i want to actually matter.”
― david levithan, Six Earlier Days

“Now they are struggling to find that balance-- separated but still inseparable, apart but still a part.”
― David Levithan, Six Earlier Days

“Your life is your life. You can't live it in compartments.Each place you're in has a door open at either end.”
― David Levithan, Six Earlier Days

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Read this to yourself. Read it silently.
Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound.
Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.
What a wonderfully weird thing, huh?

NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD!
SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND!
DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.
Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper.

Now, read this next line in your best crotchety-
old man voice:
"Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?"
Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that?
It sure wasn't yours!

How do you do that?
How?!
It must've been magic.”
― Bo Burnham