April > April's Quotes

“We are mice, he thinks, and the sky swirls with hawks.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Why waste your final hours racing about your cage denying you're a squirrel?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
― Richard Siken

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river
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with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away
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― Richard Siken, Crush

“What if you colonize your own mind and when you get inside, the furniture is attached to the ceiling? What if you step inside and when you touch the furniture, you realize it's all just cardboard cutouts and it all collapses beneath the pressure of your finger? What if you get inside and there's no furniture? What if you get inside and it's just you in there, sitting in a chair, rolling figs and eggs around in the basked of your lap and humming a little tune? What if you get inside and there's nothing there, and then the door hatch closes and locks?

What is worse: being locked outside of your own mind, or being locked inside of it?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life.”
― Louise Glück, Averno