Gita Ventyana > Gita's Quotes

“Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Anyone who can be home anywhere really has no home at all.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“Hate is a waste of time. I'm far too busy to hate anything.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Nobody else around me seems to be looking around and wondering what to do. Why is it that I feel like I'm the only person who is confused and concerned about the choices I've made and where I'm headed? Everywhere I look, I see people just getting on with it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― John Lennon

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A woman's lot is to suffer.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“But that's life. One long tunnel. There are lights along the way. Sometimes they feel spread farther apart than others, but they're there. And when you find one, it's okay to stand under it for a while to catch your breath before marching back into the dark.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

“the moment we forget that even the evil among us are still human is the moment we forget that even the most human among us are capable of evil.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built