Radiant Quotes

“We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Listen, I'm about to sound like the shallowest person on the face of the earth right now, but you can't control your grandma's disease. You don't make it any better or any worse...One day, your grandma isn't going to remember anything. Hopefully it's still a while away, but it's coming and there's nothing you can do about it. So, there's no use feeling bad about something you can't control. You just have to have to enjoy how things are now.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Love is antithetical to human nature. Humans seek their own good. Their own survival. Their own glorification. But love seeks the good of the other, even to the detriment of the self. Even to the detriment of others.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“What I mean is that you aren't even supposed to know we exist. Therefore, how can you completely understand something if you're not supposed to know it's there?”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“By my observations, I don't think 'love' is an emotion," [Phos] said. "It doesn't make sense to me.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“As long as you're not 'gross full,'" Raj said. "That's when you're so full that it's hard to breathe because your stomach is pushing up into your lung region.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Art shows what's inside. And that's scary. Showing my paintings would be like...like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd and showing them what color I bleed.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“But this was just metal and glass once," [Carter] said. "Raw materials. No form. No purpose. But Ben saw something in his mind. And the chemicals in his brain arranged to tell his hands to craft these uninteresting materials. This [sculpture] is the result. We are looking at what he saw before he made the work. I am...speechless.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant