The Colours We See Quotes

“We can give and give to someone, give everything we have and more, until there is nothing left of us. And then what good are we? To anyone?”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Come on now, I urged myself, looking at my reflection. Don’t let her ruin this, too. The sight of my red-rimmed eyes made me even more sad and I tried to force a smile, but then my dimples appeared, and they always made me look like her. Or at least back when she used to smile. I hated the way they reminded me of her. I covered them with my index fingers and turned my head sideways, trying to imagine myself without them, wishing I could smooth them out with a touch. If only it were that easy to erase something you didn’t want. I stood pinching the poisonous letter until my breath had calmed and my eyes stopped burning. Then I hurried back to my room and hid it at the bottom of my bag, where I wouldn’t have to think about it any longer. I hadn’t come all this way to keep living this nightmare. In bed, I curled up and tried to focus on the cool breeze that came in through the open window, carrying scents of unfamiliar blossoms and dry grass, and soon I drifted off to the pulsing lullaby of the Midwestern crickets. Ahead lay the road. And the whole world. Two I woke confused, dazzled by a beam of sunlight poking at my eye. Instinctively, I turned around and burrowed my face deeper into the pillow, before I remembered where I was and flew right up. I’m in America! Through the window I could see pastel suburbs and sprawling oak trees, topped by a beckoning blue sky. My head cleared in an instant and I wanted to run outside and explore. But Nathan was still asleep, so instead I padded into the living room and stretched out on the sofa, letting out a gratified exhale. I was free. My eyes drifted over to Nathan’s guitar. I picked it up and ran my fingers over the curved wood. Back home I had a cheap, second-hand acoustic which had served me well in learning the basics. I knew I wasn’t much of a guitarist, but I”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“It was just too easy. And why have it hard when you can have it easy? But easy doesn't always come cheap.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“We listened to the stories of hell and damnation, and we learned to live with nightmares.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“If heaven and hell exist, I think they're on Earth. Death probably looks very different.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Don't let anyone else decide how you live your life. No book, no teacher, no parents, no priest. You are responsible for you, and you make the rules of your own life.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Art is just escapism." Liam muttered. "It's not escapism. It's the truth.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Never give away your power to someone else by asking them to like you or your work. Nobody has to like it but you.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Life is better when you take risks.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Everything was new, so I could be, too. The entire world was at my feet, and I wanted to embrace it without hesitation”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“I wished he would speak to me, but as always when something troubled him, he turned into himself, rolling up like a hedgehog, spikes pointing outward. I knew better than to try and poke him.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“It's easier to be sad in a foreign place. Everything feels new and less real, and you can hold on to the illusion that all your problems will go away at the next stop; just keep going down the endless road, chasing the mirage.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“He felt like a shard from a broken vase; forever cut off from the shape he could have been a part of, unable to find his place in the great puzzle, his edges dangerously sharp.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“I feel like wherever I go, and whatever I do, some piece of me gets left behind. I'm starting to feel hollow. Like a fucking Jenga tower, every day I'm losing a block. I don't know how long I can stay standing.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Life is just one big paradox”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“Acceptance is the key to peace”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“You can take it. We all can. It sucks and it hurts, but we get through it day by day, minute by minute until we're out the other side.”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See

“All wounds take time to heal. You just gotta hold on, and remember that you won't feel like this forever”
― Kaisa Winter, The Colours We See