P 56 Quotes

“If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.”
― Miriam Toews, The Flying Troutmans

“I had felt guilty but honored. Genevieve liked me best. We were close,closer than with anyone else. The bracelets were proof. How cheaply I was bought then, with just a bracelet made out of string.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. [...] And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“At the sound of the first droning of the shells we rush back, in one part of our being, a thousand years. By the animal instinct that is awakened in us we are led and protected. It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness. One cannot explain it. A man is walking along without thought or heed; - suddenly he throws himself down on the ground and a storm of fragments fly harmlessly over him; - yet he cannot remember either to have heard the shell coming or to have thought of flinging himself down. But had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he would now be a heap of mangled flesh. It is this other, this second sight in us, that has thrown us to the ground and saved us, without our knowledge how. If it were not so, there would not be one man alive . . .”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Christian priests were forced to live celibate for their God, but druids lived to celebrate the joys the goddess gives.”
― Rosalind Miles, Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle