“Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Monsters can only live in hiding, covered by darkness and the shame wrapped up in the telling.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Obviously, he psyched you out. He mind-fucked you big time.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“You know, there's reason why certain expressions never go away and endure the test of time. It's because they're as real todaynasnthey were a hundred years ago.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Scars are your body's way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever wad before the pain”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Wishing can bring false hope and then what does that get you?” “Temporary happiness? A little rest from the storm?”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“A pretty face brings people to you, sure,” he agrees. “But it’s the personality and what’s inside that keeps them there. Personally, if I had to choose between a pretty face and a great personality, I’d choose the personality.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“Beauty comes from inside, not out.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
“It’s like … everything that happened to you, all those terrible things that I hope someday you’ll tell me about, they’re part of who you are now. They make up the scars that are on your heart. If you rip them off, try to make them disappear, you’ll just cause more damage in the end. Scars are your body’s way of healing, making that damaged part stronger than it ever was before the pain.”
― Elle Casey, quote from Don't Make Me Beautiful
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“and as they stood in silence before her, prayed again. "Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life." Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey. "Please let Yvonne have her dream -- dream? -- of a new life with me -- please let me believe that all that is not an abominable self-deception," he tried... "Please let me make her happy, deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower still, that I may know the truth. Teach me to love again, to love life." That wouldn't do either... "Where is love? Let me truly suffer. Give me back my purity, the knowledge of the Mysteries, that I have betrayed and lost. -- Let me be truly lonely, that I may honestly pray. Let us be happy again somewhere, if it's only together, if it's only out of this terrible world. Destroy the world!" he cried in his heart.”
― Malcolm Lowry, quote from Under the Volcano
“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”
― Kate Morton, quote from The House at Riverton
“Where I grew up, death is a constant visitor. A virus, bacteria, a parasite; drought and famine; soldiers, and torturers; could bring it to anyone, any time. Death comes riding on raindrops that turned to floods. It catches the imagination of men in positions of authority who order their subordinates to hunt, torture, and kill people they imagine to be enemies. Death lures many others to take their own lives in order to escape a dismal reality. For many women, because of the perception of lost honor, death comes at the hands of a father, brother, or husband. Death comes to young women giving birth to new life, leaving the newborn orphaned in the hands of strangers. For those who live in anarchy and civil war, as in the country of my birth, Somalia, death is everywhere.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, quote from Infidel
“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Anathem
“Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from Crossing to Safety
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