The Complete Works of a Lost Girl Quotes

“We all at some point realize we’re not so much stuck in our roles as we are stuck in our own heads. It’s there where the roles exist in the first place.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“We don’t care about causing pain to others, don’t even consider it. We don’t ask ourselves if these desires once fulfilled actually filled us at all…I’m not afraid to be a greedy, prideful, lustful, shallow-hearted bastard like the rest of them. I’m scared to death that I’m not like them, that I can’t live with what I’ve done.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“I am like you: aware of humility. I cannot stop anything at all; I’m a mere human. But perhaps I can
learn from it. Remember the screams and the tears. Remember the flickers of hope that when given a bit air may burst into a roaring fire. What’s better, fake happiness or genuine sadness and understanding of reality?”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“People choose because there are choices. And because they themselves created those choices. People created evil, molded the clay with their own hands. And as they created evil they acknowledged its opposite as good.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Aye, well I hope for your sake you don’t believe that every person labeled as a philosopher is a person of thought. If so, I guarantee a lot of your time has been wasted away.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“When one does not know their own self the madness spreads within without recognition, without hindrance. You don’t even know the beast is there until it strikes and with a sting of fangs on flesh, tears you apart leaving the remains poisoned with venom.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Life is a mess of actions and emotions, a chaotic orb of unknown order, a fuse of color and the void.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“[T]he truth doesn’t ask you for anything other than just to live it, to open your eyes and take in all that it can give - [a]ll that it can give to you.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“The ground was the only constant, that and the stars. The bright lights seemed to shine just for me on some nights…With the stars there I never felt alone. I do think that is why I still believe in peace, the stars kept me in the light.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person first leaves when they are witness to the violence of man.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“We talk of things close to our hearts
Things that no one sees, no one knows
That shatter us into pieces and parts
But now alone neither of us goes.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“We will be no more than a past shadow;
A soft memory, we will move on from;
Naught but a familiar dream, this I know.
O, but my love for thee will never cease
For thou hast giv’n me, of thee, one sweet piece.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Find us a deep wood; we will live in trees
Find us a lone beach; we will sleep with stars,
Or a greater favor do for us please;
Stop Earth from turning so Time can be ours.
Hold onto those sweet moments giv’n we will
Of the love we had when Earth was held still.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“It was never you. It was the feeling. The feeling of being wanted. The feeling of being looked at and feeling seen. The feeling of being someone needed by someone else. And feelings can’t be kept in a cage - if allowed, they do the caging.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Makes me wonder if life is just a circle. The young just started life and maybe that makes them closer to life that’s ending…I can’t help but feel that I witness more wisdom and a sort of spirituality in more children than I do adults.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“People who think that wisdom comes with age are idiots. I’m still as dumb as I was when I was young. Appreciation of time is what comes with age.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“How long do you think it’ll be until instead of focusing on the light in front of them, they’ll begin to notice how the dark seems to ebb into their circle of light as thick and slow as spilled molasses. The anticipation of complete darkness will blind them and the light will be wasted. It’s strange when people treasure something more when it’s gone than when they had it.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Most people often forget how powerful light is. It’s only until you look away into the dark that you realize the light has taken its toll upon what your eyes see, filled your vision with spots. Yes, all light
blinds you in its own special way.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“It’s the softness of ‘er an’ the way she shows love in ‘er eyes an’ smile. Only a real woman can do tha’.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Man labels creatures in the wild as beasts for they see violence and malice in their eyes. Truth is it’s just a reflection. There are no beasts in the world of animals, only in the world of men.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“The happiest people in society are those that don’t know each other too well.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“[S]he will be the warm breeze on your face; the solid ground beneath you; she will be the joyous sunrise; the quiet sunset; she will be the warmth in your heart; the song in your voice. She will be what you let her, a constant of peace.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Oh, do not blame the gods for man’s war. Do not blame the hearts of man either, for so many are good, and I say so from being witness to their many acts. If you must blame something, blame the eyelids of us men that seem to close right when peace is in front of us and open right when it leaves.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“I have not the power to turn the colour of your eyes, force your hand to grab your hair, nor do I have the power to change a person into a monster. Do not think so highly of me for I am not powerful like the anger you carry, rather I am weak.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“For it is only when the theater is empty and quiet that the whispers of the characters...can be heard and the spirit of the stories waiting to be told can be felt.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“I choose to share my life through words so as to be one who lives.”
― Kelleen Goerlitz, The Complete Works of a Lost Girl