Sofía Scigliano > Sofía's Quotes

“- I was scared, suh.
- Why were you scared?
- Mr Finch if you was a nigger like me you’d be scared, too.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks, without even stopping to think they’re people, too”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.”
― J. R. Ackerley

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“There's one thing you just can't fake... Inexperience”
― Tom Rob Smith, London Spy: The Complete Scripts

“How do we live without the people we love?”
― Tom Rob Smith, London Spy: The Complete Scripts

“You either step into the abyss or step back from it. You cannot walk along its edge for long.”
― Tom Rob Smith, London Spy: The Complete Scripts

“No child can redeem their parents”
― Tom Rob Smith, London Spy: The Complete Scripts

“Hard to connect to people when you're not sure how they're connected to you.”
― Tom Rob Smith, London Spy: The Complete Scripts

“I want to tell you the story about a man.

While other people were laughing and drinking, this man would just walk until he reached the exact same spot, where he'd sit with his back to all those people---
While he did everything to signal to the world that he wanted to be left alone---
More than anything, he hoped someone would understand that what he really wanted was the exact opposite, and that this 'someone' would sit next to him and strike up a conversation.

I was that man. You were that 'someone'.”
― Tom Rob Smith, London Spy: The Complete Scripts

“It took several thousand miles for me to begin believing that I am better than the worst things I've done”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Writings

“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”
― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I remember it all because how can you forget anything about the day you first found yourself beautiful?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“This also means nothing. I know. But some nothings change everything after them”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Monkeys, moose, cows, dogs, butterflies, buffaloes. What we would give to have the ruined lives of animals tell a human story - when our lives are in themselves the story of animals.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Everyone has something good about them,' she said. 'You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.'
'Oh yeah?' I said. 'How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?'
'Hitler loved dogs,' Mom said without hesitation.”
― Jeannette Walls (Author), The Glass Castle

“Just remember,' Mom said after examining the blisters, 'what doesn't kill you will make you stronger.'
'If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now', Lori said.”
― Jeannette Walls (Author), The Glass Castle

“....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle