Bailey > Bailey's Quotes

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.”
― Wilhelm Stekel, The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche

“Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.”
― Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

“I didn't know until then that rage had a taste and it tasted like your own blood.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“The world is a clock and the clock winds down, and their coming had nothing to do with that. The world has always been a clock. Even the stars will wink out one by one and there will be no light or heat, and this is the war, the endless, futile war against the lightless, heatless void rushing toward us.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“The temperature of true rage is absolute zero, and mine is deeper than the ocean, wider than the universe.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“Give someone the power of the gods and he will become as indifferent as the gods.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for the human mind to override: Protect the young at all costs. Preserve the future." - Vosch”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“He knew what would come of it. He had always known. Once he found her imprisoned in snow and carried her back and made her whole, his death would be the price. Virtues are vices now, and death is the cost of love. Not the death of his body. His body was the lie. True death. The death of his humanity. The death of his soul.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“The only way to stop the tears was to keep drinking the whisky.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life