Shattered Illusions Quotes

“There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere. Had I disappeared, no one would have noticed.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“I don't know where I am- somewhere between heaven and hell, a place of utter terror and endless confusion.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Trapped, cutting herself against the jagged edges of her emotions, she was a prisoner of her own spirit.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“I want to release my soul from its prison cell, to silence the guards who tell me that I am not capable of living. Every voice that ever told me that I cannot achieve has, at this moment, become silenced. This cell is no longer my home.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop it. You hear of another person's problems, automatically feel the need to salve their pain, so you make it your own. After a while, it no longer matters if the problem was yours to begin with. You absorb their pain into your body, your blood stream, your soul. It becomes yours.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“The thing about life, is that you never know where you stand. It's almost impossible to place yourself in a position of superiority- not against other people, not against yourself.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Do not try to understand. What I feel for you cannot be limited to words. I know that you have moved on with your life, yet I stand here, frozen in the midst of your spirit.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“If I close my eyes, plug my ears, and hold my tongue, all of this will cease to exist. I can pretend it never happened. No one will blame me if I choose to shove these memories into the back of my mind.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“We weren't perfect for each other- I knew that then as much as I know it now- but we worked together around our problems, mainly avoiding them, though to us that was the best way. We snuck around our problems like criminals in the night. But, aren't we all criminals in love?”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“A machine! I have become a machine! It has taken over my life. How ironic! In a world of freedom and independence, my entire life now depends on a machine!”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Instead of channeling passion through my fingertips, I summoned the courage to channel it through my eyes.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course it can't.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“He focused on the world before him; the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Every man seeks the life he thinks he deserves.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“In this game against fate, I am losing. Miserably.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not the existence of another lifetime, simply a different mindset, a different age, purpose, exile and a separate redemption. A separate world in which to wait.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“I refuse to stay a prisoner to my body. I am going to free myself.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Everything can change, fluctuate, go into reverse. They strike without much warning, it any at all. It is the curse of the human mind, convincing us that we live in a bubble safe from change.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Have you ever wanted something so desperately that you imagine it, day in and day out, until you have created an image of perfection that becomes the 'real thing'? Suddenly, all you have to live for is the image in your head that may not be real to anyone else in the world, but is most certainly real to you. Nothing is as perfect, not even the thing itself, as the image you have created in your mind.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“I am only doing this because I was asked. They tell me that, sometime in the future, I will thank them for pushing me this way. They say that one day, when all this is over, I will come to terms with who I am and where I came from. Not gonna happen.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“I'm moving away from time. Or, is it that time is moving away from me?”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Refusing to believe that change can occur at any moment is one of the worst of human failings.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions

“Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn't want to begin with.”
― Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions