Isatou Gaye > Isatou's Quotes

“It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that I am with you. Always. Forever. We don't have to be separated by the sun, school, or even the night. Now I'm just a click away." ~Alexander”
― Ellen Schreiber, Love Bites

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?”
― Lauren Kate, Passion

“I will always catch you when you fall”
― Lauren Kate , Torment

“Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“Will you tell me again?" he asked, almost shyly. "Will you tell me what I am?"
"You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. "I'm in love with an angel.”
― Lauren Kate, Fallen

“All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.”
― Lauren Kate, Passion

“you caught me" Luce said.
"I'll always catch you when you fall" said Daniel”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“LUCE: You really beleive this? That someday I'll live through this?
DANIEL: With all my heart and soul, I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.

-Daniel & Luce, PASSION”
― Lauren Kate, Passion

“My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait.
For all of this, I know, is but a dream.
And when, in sleep, at last we wake,
I will see you again.”
― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore

“You dress to impress," I said approvingly.
"No, Angel." He leaned in, his teeth softly grazing my ear. "I undress to impress.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Finale

“I want to wake up with you every morning and fall asleep beside you each night,” Patch told me gravely. “I want to take care of you, cherish you, and love you in a way no other man ever could. I want to spoil you — every kiss, every touch, every thought, they all belong to you. I’ll make you happy. Every day, I’ll make you happy.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Finale

“Did you know, the first time I saw you, I thought: I’ve never seen anything more captivating and beautiful?”

“Why are you telling me this?” I said miserably.

“I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. That wanting nearly drove me mad.” Patch paused, inhaling softly, as though breathing me in. “And now that I have you, the only thing that terrifies me is having to go back to that place. Having to want you all over again, with no hope of my desire ever being fulfilled. You’re mine, Angel. Every last piece of you. I won’t let anything change that.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Finale

“It is said that in difficult times, it is only bodhichitta that heals. When inspiration has become hidden, when we feel ready to give up, this is the time when healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“we think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. the truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated.”
― Pema Chodron

“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it’s in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn’t mean it’s no longer love.”
― Ayobami adebayo

“Besides, what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits, without those better versions of ourselves that we present as the only ones that exist?”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“It was as though, because she had spent so little time in the world, it did not really matter that she was gone—she did not really matter.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“was not strong enough to love when I could lose again, so I held her loosely, with little hope, sure that somehow she too would manage to slip from my grasp.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“I was realising that all the rage had been an affectation. Something I’d reached for to use as a defence against shame. Anger is easier than shame.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“Sometimes, when you are hungry enough, you can will the ghost-taste of sweet-bread in your mouth. It will make you hungrier, though, and emptier. And sometimes you won’t know how truly bereft of food you are until it’s too late.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“for example, about navigating freedom and polyamory in conservative Senegal, or resisting the erasure of lesbian identity and finding queer community in Egypt in the midst of a revolution. African women grapple with the trauma of sexual abuse, and resist religious and patriarchal edicts in order to assert their sexual power and agency.”
― Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

“What I have learned over the years is that you don’t discover yourself by sticking to well-trodden paths. You discover yourself by embarking on your own personal odyssey, which is experienced differently by everyone.”
― Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing

“Paradoxically, what keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn’t work: The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more, keep buying, keep consuming.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Create a Better Life

“This strange paradox of knowing you have close friends but feeling, simultaneously, that you don’t have any close friends is a familiar feeling that encapsulates the entire modern friendship sphere. The”
― Anna Goldfarb, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

“The beauty of attention is that it’s free to give, and it makes your friends feel noticed, valued, and loved.”
― Anna Goldfarb, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

“The reality is that friendships in adulthood are endangered. Studies show that after thirty, it’s both more challenging to foster new friendships and harder to renegotiate old ones.3 It can feel like you’re stuck between forging new bonds from scratch or feeling beholden to people and patterns you’ve outgrown.”
― Anna Goldfarb, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections

“They used hot combs to straighten their hair, his aunty had said, because they wanted to look like white people, although the combs ended up burning their hair off.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“But you became aware that you were Igbo because of the white man. The pan-Igbo idea itself came only in the face of white domination. You must see that tribe as it is today is as colonial a product as nation and race.” Professor Ezeka re-crossed his legs.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun