Hello, Dove Quotes

“Life is harsh, either way. You either hate the years that you’re given, or you love the years and they leave you.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“With all the reasons that he laid out in the open for me to know to keep my distance, I still stood only feet away. I placed my soul close to one that rid itself of all the inconveniences of good. No regret to wear him down, no care to stop him from making the same morbid moves again and again. My soul was full of all that he lacked, and his lacked all the weary weight of mine.
My soul feared what it couldn't find in the places where his should be; and it feared the attraction of it's void.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“The sun and the shadows of the world have stirred you, awakened you. You’re just finding what living without an incapacitated soul is like.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“You began all this by ending me. You ended me the day that you left the pieces of someone else in my hand, and I’ve lost pieces of myself every day since then. You brought me here, to a place where innocence dies, and now there’s nothing left. Nothing but this same body that you saw in tears, and smiled at. If you loved the sight of my weakness so much, then why take it? Why lead me here, where I’m meant to be stronger because I’m so aware? I’m standing over the ruins of what you took from me, and now all I have left is what you gave. You’ve given me anger, and the light that darkness sheds on a false life, and I want to loathe you for it.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“No more fear of living,” Othello said, capturing my attention as he put his hand on my shoulder, his thumb over the bruise on my neck. “No more holding down what wasn’t intended to be grounded. Live, and I’ll share with you all the life that I have.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“You’re too pure to feel like you don’t belong. Too good to deserve a life of fear. You symbolize everything that Othello isn’t; you’re the peace that was sent to the hands of mayhem. You brought the things that he doesn’t have just like the good little messenger bird that you are. He’ll give you everything in exchange for all he’s taken.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“Is it wrong for that to be the only feeling that doesn’t make life seem worthless? It doesn’t make sense to be able to feel that good when everything else in the world is terrible.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“New things lead to further curiosity, don't they?”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove

“The world is full of knives that are illusions, and the ones that are real. The only difference is that the real ones spare you a lifetime of suffering.”
― Gillian Dowell, Hello, Dove