The Weight of Destiny Quotes

“Él sabe cómo el aire después de la lluvia, limpio... nuevo y casi como ser renacido.”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“It’s hard sometimes to see through the fog, the pain, hurt, fear and everything else we live with every day. Virginia Woolf couldn’t do it. Annette Klinger couldn’t, either. My heart breaks for them—that they couldn’t get the help they needed for a disease they couldn’t control.”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“The thing is, Lulu, believing in people, trusting and putting ourselves out there, those are some of the most basic, human things you can do. They give you empathy. They help you understand people who are different from you. And the truth is, I don’t think everyone who makes a mistake is bad.”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“other people can lose themselves in the world of her characters. Has she lost herself to them, as well? Is that what happened to Annette Klinger, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath? Do they give so much of themselves to people who aren’t real that they lose who they are? Their grip on what reality is or is not?”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“There once was a girl named Destiny. She was the fastest runner in the world. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t outrun who she was. Then she met a boy. He said his name was also Destiny, and for the first time in her life, she didn’t feel like she was running alone.  ”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“I learned a long time ago not to put my happiness in someone else’s hands because you can never trust them not to drop it.”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“There once was a girl who didn’t know her name. One day she found out it had been Lonely. It was the day she discovered that wasn’t her anymore, and then she didn’t know her name again.”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny

“We don’t know much about life. Who really does? We all see things one way when most of the time, it’s the complete opposite. Even when you live in the situation, if it’s not yours, you don’t get it. Maybe even if it is yours, you don’t get it, but that doesn’t mean we should be afraid to write our own stories. To live.”
― Nyrae Dawn, The Weight of Destiny