Alicja Psiuk > Alicja's Quotes

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
― Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“learn the rules like a professional, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

“The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.”
― David Millar, Racing Through the Dark

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Gentlemen are a dying breed.
Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”
― Alessandra Torre

“I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.

But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.”
― Julio-Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels

“Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“I don't expect you to be like them. Don't want you to be. It's not them I want, it's you. From the moment we met, it's only been you.”
― Tabitha McGowan, The Tied Man

“If there was obsession here—a dominant persistent desire—then it was the desire to lose ourselves in one another. The only problem is that one person is now lost, and the other is trapped.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.”
― Christina Henry, Alice

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“But scissors are really intended for one job alone - snipping things in two. Dividing by force. Everything on one side or the other, and nothing in between.”
― Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song

“But easier, she reminded herself, was not the same as better.”
― Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song

“I don’t know. How can you know? I…I’m a monster. When I’m hungry, I might do anything."
"Oh no, of course I couldn’t possibly understand you." Violet’s shadowed face seemed to be wearing a grim and serious smile. "I know, you woke up one day and found out that you couldn’t be the person you remembered being, the little girl everybody expected you to be. You just weren’t her any more, and there was nothing you could do about it. So your family decided you were a monster and turned on you." Violet sighed, staring out into the darkness.

"Believe me, I do understand that. And let me tell you - from one monster to another - that just because somebody tells you you’re a monster, it doesn’t mean you are.

"just now you told me what you did because you want me to stop you from eating Pen. If you were a real monster, you wouldn’t have done that, would you?"

Trista’s eyes stung, and she wiped strands of cobweb away with her sleeve.

"Idiot," added Violet, for good measure.”
― Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.”
― Fred Rogers

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking