Celine > Celine's Quotes

“Love is like the lion's tooth.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
Yes.
“Are you mine?”
No.
“No?”
No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.”
― Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

“I'm told girls dream of being wives, but wifedom seems an awful lot like defeat dressed up as victory. We're celebrated for marrying, but after that we must cede all territory and answer to a new authority like a vanquished nation.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“I’ve loved some very sad people in my life and hurt myself trying to get them to change. They didn’t, and I have no business being surprised by it. People will tell you who they are. It takes an emergency for some of us to listen.”
― Stephanie Danler, Stray: A Memoir

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

“For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.”
― Patti Smith

“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“What good is beauty, any beauty, if nobody wins?”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Don't touch my dick, don't touch my knife.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden