Bella > Bella's Quotes

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Nothing that had happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed except my illusions. I myself was intact. The world was intact.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“There is a cosmic “entanglement” between every atom of our body and atoms that are light-years distant. Since all matter came from a single explosion, the big bang, in some sense the atoms of our body are linked with some atoms on the other side of the universe in some kind of cosmic quantum web. Entangled particles are somewhat like twins still joined by an umbilical cord (their wave function) which can be light-years across. What happens to one member automatically affects the other, and hence knowledge concerning one particle can instantly reveal knowledge about its pair. Entangled pairs act as if they were a single object, although they may be separated by a large distance.”
― Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind!”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“Everything changes you, and you change everything.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“How many of us appreciate the joys of a simple tortilla?”
― Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

“Thor without his flying chariot would be like a dwarf without an emergency parachute.”
― Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

“EMPTYLEATHER , a bag completed by Blitzen, son of Freya. Jack helped."

"I wrote that!" Jack said proudly. "I helped!”
― Rick Riordan, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.”
― R.J. Palacio

“I've missed you too. Have you been well?"
"No," I said.
She smiled sadly. "Nor have I."
But that was going to change now. For both of us.”
― S.J. Kincaid, The Diabolic

“I’m a cat. We aren’t required to make sense.”
― Seanan McGuire, A Local Habitation

“If they had pockets! With pockets, women could conquer the world! And”
― Theodora Goss, The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter

“Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG

“By acknowledging our issues, we have the best chance of resolving them in a healthy way. Buried pain never gets better with age. And by remembering and being open and truthful about our mistakes, we reduce the chance we will repeat them.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

“My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude… ”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“As a child, did you feel like you fell short, disappointing a parent, stepparent, or caretaker because you weren’t good enough, didn’t do enough, or just weren’t able to please, no matter how hard you tried? Did you feel responsible for your parent’s happiness and guilty if you felt happy yourself? Did you feel damned if you did and damned if you didn’t, that whatever you did or said was the wrong thing (and boy would you pay for it)? Were you accused of things you hadn’t done? Did you feel manipulated at times? Feel appreciated one minute and attacked the next? Thought you must be “crazy” because a parent’s actions or reactions didn’t make any sense? Question your own intuition, judgment, or memory, believing you must have missed or misinterpreted something? Did you feel on guard all the time, that life with your parent was never predictable?

You weren’t crazy. Not then, and not now.”
― Kimberlee Roth, Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem

“You are also capable of surviving pretty much anything. Think back to all the times you swore you couldn’t get through something. If you’re here, then you did get through it.”
― Sarah Andersen, Herding Cats

“Some people are simply adopted by others, and they’re friends now and there’s nothing to be done about that.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“I denied myself happiness, denied myself love and passion and devotion, out of fear of losing. Out of fear of being abandoned again.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“It’s the Leidensdruck concept. The literal translation is ‘the pressure of suffering’. What the concept suggests is that the suffering inherent in not acting must exceed the suffering one expects to experience if one acts. That the ‘Leidensdruck’, the pressure has to be high enough to become the impetus for moving forward, for change.”
― Milena McKay, A Whisper of Solace

“We have to choose someone again and again and again. Is it fate? Or do we choose because that is the only person who has ever seen us, known us, gave us the true freedom of being loved as we are?”
― Milena McKay