Violet > Violet's Quotes

“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

“And I wish that my art could be something I do without having to worry about what people think, or because I think it’s cool and great instead of because this is the box I’m being put in.”
― Jonny Garza Villa, Ander & Santi Were Here

“It's hard not to lose your foothold when someone peers inside you, sees all those things you tried the hardest to keep hidden, all those ugly shames you've tried to tell yourself aren't really as bad as they seem. All those lies disintegrate in the light.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“Other people don't exist just to be your happy ending, you know?”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“From watching my parents I think being married or being with someone else in any kind of real way takes a certain amount of bravery, and it's not something I'm positive I have in me. To pluck your heart from your chest that way and hand it to someone, unprotected, and wait to see how gently they'll stitch it back in for you, or not--to wake up all those days you're the crappiest version of yourself and face the person who knows you best, morning after morning, year after year.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“Art doesn't change the ending. It doesn't let you lose yourself that way--the opposite, really; it calls you from the darkness, into the glaring, unforgiving light. But at least--this is why it will always feel like a calling to me--it lets you not be so alone.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“We all have those things, I think – those things we want too badly to speak about aloud for fear someone'll swoop in and tell us we're just dreaming, those things we hold close and fantasize about at night and swear to the world we don't care that much about.”
― Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl's Moving Castle

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“There is a silence that binds us. It ties our tongues when we need help. It muzzles our minds when we need to reach out and shackles our voices when we need to speak up.”
― Joanna Ho, The Silence that Binds Us

“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“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

“She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

“But the truth is, Rhi: regardless of your connection with someone, you are not entitled to their story. And there is no one who has any right to your story, either.”
― Madeline Claire Franklin, The Wilderness of Girls

“The need to be loved and feel like you belong is a biological imperative. That’s why so many people stay in abusive situations for so long: they convince themselves it’s not as bad as it is because the alternative—being alone—feels like a threat as real as death.”
― Madeline Claire Franklin, The Wilderness of Girls

“WHENEVER A WOMAN IS DECLARED dangerous, there is always a man eager to subdue her. Whether it’s because he can’t stand the idea of a woman with power, or he can’t stand the idea of a woman having more power than him, Rhi doesn’t know.”
― Madeline Claire Franklin, The Wilderness of Girls