Maria > Maria's Quotes

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.”
― Dalai Lama

“Nothing worth having comes easy.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection.”
― Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

“This won’t be an escape. I won’t be running away from my life. I’ll be making a conscious decision to be more.”
― Ruth Kelly, The Escape

“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things . . . and to laugh. Beautiful songs, beautiful scenery, feeling nauseous, people singing, planes flying across the sky, the thundering hooves of horses, mouth-watering pancakes, the endless darkness of space, cowboys firing their pistols at dawn . . .”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“And this love, this thing unique to humans, even though it can sometimes be a burden or even get in your way, is something that buoys us human beings up. It’s sort of like time in that way. It’s one of those things that only exists for humans—like time, color, temperature, loneliness, and now love. All these things that only humans experience. In a way these things rule over or control us, but they also allow us to live fully. And they’re precisely what makes us human.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“Everyone dies eventually. The fatality rate is 100%. So when you think about it in that way, whether it’s a happy death or an unhappy death depends on how you’ve lived your life.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“In order to gain something you have to lose something.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“There’s just the time you spend alone and the time when you’re with someone else. I suppose loneliness is another thing that only human beings feel. But looking at my mother’s smiling face in those old photos makes me think that maybe it’s only because we feel lonely that we have certain other feelings.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“When you think about it, it’s the future you’ll never get to see that you regret missing the most when you die.”
― Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

“Humans tend to regret the life they never lived, the choices they never made.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage.”
― Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

“First novels are autobiography and wish fulfilment. Evidently, one’s got to push all one’s disappointments and unmet desires through the pipes before one can write anything useful.”
― Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

“You can’t balance risk, you just have to take it. (Close to Where the Heart Gives Out)”
― Malcolm Alexander

“You can't force yourself to be happy in a life that doesn't feel like it belongs to you.”
― Lisa Hobman, Coming Home to the Highlands