Cel > Cel's Quotes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I think this place is bringing out something beautiful in you, actually. Scary, too, but somehow magical.”
― Lauren Du Plessis, Tender

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“All I have is my uncertainty. And really, that’s all I’ve ever had. Everything else was a lie.”
― Chana Porter, The Seep

“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Your mind's reaction was that you couldn't be seeing what you were seeing, and so it simply wouldn't let you see it.”
― Kōji Suzuki

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“To adequately fend off this enemy's attacks, he felt he needed to know its true visage.”
― Kōji Suzuki, Loop

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“They did not noon nor did they siesta and the cotton eye of the moon squatted at broad day in the throat of the mountains to the east and they were still riding when it overtook them at its midnight meridian sketching on the plain below a blue cameo of such dread pilgrims clanking north.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Even if his rational brain accepted another version of reality, his heart never would.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“Spring hides inside winter.[...]It exists alongside winter.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“We can never truly see into the hearts of others. When people get lost in their own worries, they can be blind to the feelings of those most important to them.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“The expectation disappeared from Kazu's expression like sand silently falling in an hourglass.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades

“At the news, he heard a tautly stretched string snapping inside his head.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales from the Cafe

“Kaoru was fully aware of the irony in the fact that immortality, the object of man's deepest yearnings from time immemorial, was in the possession of this primeval horror, this killer of men.”
― Kōji Suzuki, Loop

“The softest invasion had begun.”
― Chana Porter, The Seep

“The Seep did love us, and it wanted to help us to create a perfect world. And this destroyed life as we knew it.”
― Chana Porter, The Seep