Peter > Peter's Quotes

“There are two ways out of this poxy shithole of a town: you leave in a blaze of glory and never look back, or you die. I don't want to die.”
― Holden Sheppard, Invisible Boys

“You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.”
― Timothy Conigrave, Holding the Man

“Oh my god, Mei Ling is funny. Mei Ling is funny and depressed. My two favourite things in a potential friend. I am beaming. I am floating. Mei Ling, you saucy devil, you sly dog, you also hate this!”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot: A Novel

“No one knows exactly how long they’re going to live. So there’s really no such thing as too late or too soon.”
― Genki Kawamura, 世界から猫が消えたなら [Sekai kara Neko ga Kietanara]

“Sometimes you meet someone and know that they understand you and you understand them. You might not ever see them again, but for a moment in time, you're both aware that you are looking at the situation you find yourselves in through the same window, whereas everyone else around you is looking at it from somewhere else entirely, maybe from the ground floor, maybe through an open doorway.”
― Madeleine Gray, Green Dot

“Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?”
― Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library

“Control just feels like love if you've never felt the latter.”
― Holden Sheppard, The Brink

“You wanna be a sensitive bastard, do it,' I tell him. 'And if you wanna be a tough cunt, do it. Do neither. Do both. All that matters is that you just fucken do it.”
― Holden Sheppard, The Brink

“I could spend the rest of my life terrified of death, but I'll still die in the end, and those wasted years of panic would be a much more prolonged suffering than the actual death itself.”
― Holden Sheppard, The Brink

“That's the thing about choices. They're an act of knowledge, of faith, of love. It's how we make them that sets us apart, because every single day, worlds are colliding, and our choices shape so much more than just our own story. And if we want to change this world for the better, then we must be the best possible version of ourselves, because who we are in each moment is a gift to the universe. This is what the present is: when the sum of one person's past meets a world's collective future.”
― Sarah Ayoub, The Yearbook Committee