Aurora > Aurora's Quotes

“Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
― Taylor Swift

“And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away.”
― Taylor Swift

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There was the place where all the shouted words fall into the water. They’re too weak to make it from shore to shore. I saw the words underwater, millions of them; they’re lying there on the bottom of the sea, a whole load of wrecked sentences, sentences that never reached their destination, questions from one side and answers from the other…”
― Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

“That cloak of love you were wearing—he’s torn it to shreds, undoing the seams of trust that held it together. How can you ever wear those shreds?”
― Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

“I would soon come to understand that adulthood was exactly this: the constant upending of everything you believed when you were young.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year

“He looked at me, then down at the floor. I could feel something fracturing, like the first time you ask your parents a question they can't answer or the first time they don't catch you in a lie. The moment you recognize your separateness.”
― Daisy Alpert Florin, My Last Innocent Year

“Grief is like a splinter too deep underneath your skin to remove. At first, it is a sharp pain. Then a dull one that only bites when you press it. But you endure. You shape your new self around it, and you learn to survive. Eventually, they tell me you'll learn to thrive.”
― Beverly Twomey, What the Sea Brings

“I love you," she said, "and I hate you, more than I have ever hated anyone. I see it now: you must love someone to truly hate them. They must give you something before they can take it away.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars

“You could have as many souls as stars, my love, and all those lives would be as unhappy as the first.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars

“Esther felt as if she were ripe fruit, about to burst its skin, a cloud about to rain, and she was so undone, so confused, so exhausted of feeling constantly on the edge of something without actually reaching it.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars

“She was starting to believe they were the same thing. When humans wanted each other, they were all mouths and teeth, desire and satisfaction. Miriam wanted Esther in that way, also. She didn't see the need to distinguish between lust and love, consumption and devotion. Miriam loved her. She wanted her life and her death and each bloody beat of her heart in between.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars

“And God above us all," Cybil said. "Observing us squirming on our hooks.”
― Natasha Siegel, As Many Souls as Stars

“An illusion." She stared at the faux leather. "Fear is an illusion to keep us from our full potential. It's what traps Dredgers so they can't be free. What traps us in within their nightmares. But a nightmare is an illusion of what could be. Not what is. Once the fear is gone, it's not a nightmare anymore.”
― A.J. Lexa, Lines Between Stars

“Marigold bled into faint blues of morning as sunshine peeked over mountains of the city she'd always called home.”
― A.J. Lexa, Lines Between Stars

“One final exhale, so she might breathe common sense into his soul. A single sigh, so Brax would understand the desperation behind what he meant to her. Half a heartbeat to show him though hers might've failed, it'd never fail him.”
― A.J. Lexa, Lines Between Stars

“It's now known, the Forgotten feeds into Nidus's rivers and sea. And so too will Anemone's spirit. With these lanterns, we all become stars born of fire, swathed in earth, and carried by the wind. Let our light shine over her waters, now and forevermore known as the Anemone Sea.”
― A.J. Lexa, Lines Between Stars

“You were destined for me. Perhaps as a punishment.”
― Dostoievski

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment