“We cry in our own rooms, remembering a man who will never be here again.The house creaks. Maybe it feels the weight of our grief, maybe the floorboards are buckling because the burden is too heavy.”
― Rochelle Maya Callen, quote from Ashes and Ice
“Love is a sliver of sunlight peeking through the darkness; a whisper of hope when all is lost.”
― Rochelle Maya Callen, quote from Ashes and Ice
“Jade is my everything: my wings, my roots, my sky. I am in love with her.
And she tried to kill me.
Now that is some messed up shit right now.”
― Rochelle Maya Callen, quote from Ashes and Ice
“People can change... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.”
― Rochelle Maya Callen, quote from Ashes and Ice
“ Wasting time is a stupid thing to do in this big ol' ugly world.”
― Rochelle Maya Callen, quote from Ashes and Ice
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“Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children...
It was a fleeting statement, one I didn't think she'd hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us. That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.”
― Aimee Bender, quote from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“In a friendship, especially in a friendship between two young boys, you are allowed to inflict a certain amount of pain. This is even expected. But you must cause no serious injury; you must never, under any circumstances, leave wounds that will result in permanent scars.”
― Joe Hill, quote from 20th Century Ghosts
“Muzica nu este niciodată tragică, muzica este bucurie. Dar se întâmplă, inevitabil, ca ea să ne trezească gustul morții, plăcerea de a muri nu atât de bucurie, cât cu bucurie, de a ne stinge. Dar nu în virtutea unui instinct al morții pe care l-ar trezi ea în noi, ci în virtutea unei dimensiuni proprii asamblajului ei sonor, mașinii ei sonore: momentul care se cere înfruntat atunci când transversala se transformă într-o linie de abolire. Pace și exasperare. Muzica are sete de distrugere, de toate genurile de distrugere: stingere, spargere, dislocare. Nu tocmai în aceasta constă “fascismul” ei potențial?”
― Gilles Deleuze, quote from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“Puede que a ti no te importe morir, pero a mí sí (...) No voy a hacer eso por ti. Nunca. No me lo pidas a mí.-Zacharel a Annabelle”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Wicked Nights
“When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time.”
― Jennifer Bosworth, quote from Struck
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