Deep Quotes

“If you don't believe in love, what's left to believe in?”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars

“I stretch out to touch Nyame's muzzle eagerly, and the energy doesn't withdraw. I let her know she's going to be alone again. But then I see pictures of shamans in trances and dancers in drum circles and children sleeping and I know she's never been alone. She's never NEEDED us. There have always been those who transcend, and traversing is just one way to walk between worlds. I don't think she'll miss me, that's too limited a way of thinking, but she makes me feel like she's noticed me, and I am grateful for that too.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“How could you
think people might not like you when this is the heart you have?”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“As pessoas pensam que a intimidade tem que ver com sexo.
Mas a intimidade tem que ver com a verdade.
No momento em que percebemos que podemos contar a alguém a nossa verdade, quando podemos mostrar-nos a essa pessoa, quando nos despimos de tudo à frente dela e a resposta é: «Comigo, estás segura.» Isso é intimidade.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Se amamos alguém o suficiente, devemos ser capazes de superar qualquer coisa.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“As each letter unfolds inside her mind, she frames it in the palace of her memory.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I sing myself out to you, and my talons clutch the branch, and I am wrung out until your next letter gives me breath, fills me to bursting.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Let me go. And I'll let you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“In the dark [Nyame] reaches out to me, because no one is lost. It is not a testament to affection for me, but a fact of her existence. She finds us in the in-between places, cradling individuals in the same way she cradles the whole world.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“The pine tree wastes which is perched on the hill, nor bark nor needles shelter it; such is the man whom none doth love; for what should he longer live?”
― Hávamál

“The Art of Becoming Who I'm Not

I've mastered the art of mimicry,
Bending and twisting, so you'd see
The person you want, not who I am,
A reflection caught in someone else’s plan.

I wear the masks you’ve tailored tight,
Changing my colours in your light.
But the weight of this act has grown too vast—
I’ve lost myself in shadows cast.

You think you know me, but it's a lie,
A crafted version built to satisfy.
I shape-shift, I mold, I rearrange,
A puzzle of fragments that feel so strange.

In your eyes, I’m whole, I’m sound,
Yet inside, I’m nowhere to be found.
A chameleon lost in its own disguise,
Drowning beneath layers of compromise.

Who am I when the curtains fall?
A hollow echo, nothing at all.
An actor lost in endless roles,
Pieces scattered, shattered souls.

So if you think you know my face,
Remember, it’s just another place
Where I’ve hidden, tried to belong—
But this pretence has gone on too long.

I’ve forgotten who I used to be,
Caught in the trap of who you see.”
― Chloé Holland Dicks

“If you are such a deep person that no one can reach you, no one can understand you! Don't wait foolishly for someone to understand you! Go up from the depths as much as necessary, so that someone can reach you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As almas são suscetíveis ao sofrimento.
É por isso que eu enterro as memórias.
Vivê-las uma vez chegou. Revivê-las é um hábito destrutivo.
Mas enterrei as minhas memórias dele num caixão de vidro”
― Lancali

“O dia em que o conheci é uma memória coberta de alegria de ter acontecido e da dor de ter passado. Porque mesmo que eu te diga que já esqueci, não deves confiar em mim.
Nunca te esqueces da primeira vez que cais.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Claro, as nossas doenças não nos fazem quem somos, mas as doenças são como animais de estimação. Quando andamos com elas em público, algumas pessoas sentem repulsa, outras ficam intrigadas, mas toda a gente olha.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“A morte não brinca.
A morte é repentina.
Não tem qualquer apetência para ironia ou razões.
A morte tira, simplesmente, diretamente, sem truques na manga.
Mas, pelo menos,
Desta vez,
A morte teve a gentileza de esperar pelo adeus.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Porque tu não perdes uma pessoa uma vez. Perde-la ao ouvires uma música que te lembra o sorriso dela. Ao passares por um velho ponto de referência. Ao rires de uma piada de que ela teria gostado. Perde-la infinitamente.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Eu não preciso de ser perdoado por ser quem eu escolho ser, e muito menos por amar quem eu escolho amar.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“Todos queremos um pedacinho do extraordinário. Infelizmente, a maioria das vidas passa sem que nada de extraordinário aconteça e, mesmo que aconteça, o que devíamos ter apreciado eram os momentos comuns.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“You are stronger than you think. Don't let anxiety define your day. Take control, breathe deep, and conquer your fears.”
― Dr. Poison King

“This potrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul. And when winter came upon it, he would still be standing where spring trembles on the verge of summer. With the blood crept from its face, and left behind a pallid mark of chalk with leaden eyes, he would keep the glamour of boyhood. Not one blossom of his loveliness would ever fade.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Travel light, travel far, travel deep within.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“It is not a weakness to feel things deeply, but a great strength.”
― Sabrina Cassidy, A Gargoyle Gripe

“You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.”
― JRR Tolkein

“...the fate of a storyteller. We become nodal points for the grotesque. We are the ones who say, “Look!” while everyone peeks through their eyes, unable to confront darkness in full force. We articulate what no one else can even parse. We give a name to the unthinkable.”
― Rebecca F. Kuang, The List / Yellowface

“Why build a temple at all? Seems cheaper to just shout at the sky." - Slowhand”
― Eames, Nicholas

“A name only fades when no one is left to whisper it.”
― Qmars Mootab

“That the lines between dreams and reality existed within myself.”
― Shuji Sogabe, Persona 3, Vol. 1

“Trial by Fire

Loneliness is a cold flame
that flays the soul.
When you pass through the fire
you know things then
no mortal man should know.
You're Lazarus come from the dead
living among men with
your death still on you,
knowing too much to ever have a friend,
a broken building with lights left on
sagged against the sky, mortally wounded.
You'd thought that by enduring
You'd come to peace and reconciliation,
warm hands.
You come instead to a place
where no one's been
and stand in the starless night
hands to your face
and no strength left,
lost from man and unknown to God
and no way back.
It's then you know
you must make a place for yourself
of dry bones and anguish,
wring light from the substance of your will
and hope from the bone-dry earth.
It's then you know
that the only chance you stand
is to forge a star
out of your living breath.”
― Albert Huffstickler, The cosmology of madness

“I'm not praying, perish the tought, just taking the weight off my feet. I'm not praying, because prayer is basically just asking for stuff, and I have no stuff to ask for.”
― K. J. Parker