The Stars Are Not Yet Bells Quotes

“If life weren’t full of so much beauty—the sweet mischief in Mina’s gaze, wild horses running down the blue beaches of everywhere, a spell of spring rain, the lilac dawn and its twin in dusk, the silk of a first kiss, Gabriel’s knee grazing mine, the stupidity and ephemerality and naïve violence of youth, of want, and children laughing, skipping beneath the curtain call of this world—then we wouldn’t cling to life so.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

“It’s beauty that has grown our minds. And it is beauty that has undone us. For a long time, I have wondered whether it would exist without the end, without death. If beauty and death are coincident, codependent. I still wonder now.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

“There is a certain competition for the weight of experience that only the inexperienced desire.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells