Tinder Quotes

“I am told that sleep is a rehearsal for death. It is waking that kills us.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you,”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“If my soul was filled with anything, then it was dust and the ashes of possibilities.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“There are too many ghosts walking this earth. They weigh heavy on the living.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“Una volta, in tempo di guerra, quando ero un soldato dell'Esercito Imperiale, vidi la Morte camminare. Portava sul teschio una corona avvizzita fatta di ossa e biancospino fresco attorcigliato, e alle sue spalle si stringevano gli spettri dei miei commilitoni di recente strappati, ancora giovani, alla vita.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“It is enough to know, too much to see.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“Una volta, il mio capitano disse che nella vita si incontrano persone che, crediamo, diventeranno nostri compagni di viaggio, ma poi le perdiamo per strada. Altre persone da cui non ci aspettiamo molto, invece, scalano montagne insieme a noi. Il mio capitano concludeva - solo quando il bere lo faceva diventare sentimentale- che è meglio non chiedere al destino che cosa ha in serbo per noi, o dove porta la nostra strada.
«Ti basti stare in viaggio per essere felice» diceva. «Tutte le strade portano a una sola destinazione.»”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“A secret told is mine to tell. Of truth and lies, the lesser hell.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“It is enough to know... Too much to see...”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“The self is me, the me is I, and that's all that's left.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“You too are cast in sadness thicker than stone, heavier than water,' she says. 'It ties you, like me, to this leaden earth.'
I lean forward and kiss her.
'Only in dreams,' she says, 'can we be ourselves, uncaged, wild of spirit. Here I am free to climb a tree and find a boy with eyes as sad as mine.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder

“There is more betwixt the day and the night than we can ever know.”
― Sally Gardner, Tinder