Love and Fury Quotes

“Did you see what I've seen? That my heartbeat, like yours, is the heart of the world inside us? That everything touches every other thing and love, even the darkest corners where no light lives? That we float, all of us, in the same water, on the threshold of eternity? And you and I alive in it now. Right now.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“the lust for power triumphed over reason.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“And so I will tell you the story to fill you up and bind you to this wondrous vale, if you stay with us, little bird. Please stay. I will tell you the moments that begin and end me—because we are made of them all, strung like pearls in time, searching always for where the new circle begins its turn, the place of our next becoming. Where the line becomes an arc, and curves.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“I was not a delicate flower at all - I never had been - but a tall birch that bowed with the wind, whose leaves shimmered in any light, and shuddered at a breeze as small as a whisper.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“Maybe I imagined Imlay as something he wasn't. Something better than he is. Maybe I overlooked some things because of it. Me wanting him to be what I wanted him to be.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“Something, somewhere, pulls me from the dark and explodes inside me, a rush of vivid scenes that fly at me like memories with wings, shimmering and breathing, moments from my life, most keenly felt, an infinite gallery of my own experiences coming at random, one on top of another, side by side, singular then merging into one, a sweeping view of my entire existence, but every detail and color exact, all lift and movement just as it had been. I relive every emotion precisely as it had felt, every wound and disappointment, but enchantment too; and not only my own feelings - I can go inside someone else and know what they'd seen and felt, known all the sadness and joy they carried from their own lives. Not only people, but animals and things - the whole universe alive to sensation and feeling - now alive to me! There is no progression, not even time at all, a second and a thousand years, both and neither. Everything at once and separate, present, and then gone, but indelible. Everything I have told you little bird. Al this reached for me and gathered me in its arms. Carried me across the gateway, and back to life.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“Sorrow, my sweet girl, will bring you to your knees, time and again, but so will beauty, so too love, enough to rise again, to try again to live as all beings wish to live: free.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“I'm alone-the cold, hard nothing of being nothing - and then at last surrender, my body flaccid, all exertion ceased. I am free of all pain, all feeling all past, present. All resistance gone. The only sound is my own heavy heartbeat inside me, sluggish and faint. I am overcome with the most perfect floating stillness and tranquility - my body itself becoming water.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury

“I do not know how to describe the certainty that everyone you love, in the order that you love them, will be better off without you.”
― Samantha Silva, Love and Fury