“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“How can something so wrong feel so right?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want.No one, Maya, no one can ever take that away from us.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window–do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out?
At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“How-how can we make it against the whole world?”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“Because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we’re all the same.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“Before there was anything, there was Lochan.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“
You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage.
For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare
– some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“We can love each other.' I swallow hard to ease the constriction in my throat. 'There are no laws, no bundaries on feelings. We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want. No one, Maya, no one can never take that away from us.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
“I love you in–in every kind of way.’
‘I feel like that too . . .’ His voice is shocked and raw.
‘It’s – it’s a feeling so big I sometimes think it’s going to swalow me. It’s so strong I feel it could kil me.
It keeps growing and I can’t – I don’t know what to do to stop it.
But – but we’re not supposed to do this – to love each other like this!”
― Tabitha Suzuma, quote from Forbidden
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“...the heart is an organ of fire.”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from The English Patient
“Aliens—if they exist—are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms or…or giant insects or something like a lumpy
little creature.” Daemon let out a loud laugh. “ET?”
“Yes! Like ET, asshole. I’m so glad you find this funny.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, quote from Obsidian
“Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?”
― Salman Rushdie, quote from Midnight's Children
“Jag talar inte om din bok nu, men se hur många böcker som redan skrivits om Förintelsen. Till vilken nytta? Folk har inte blivit annorlunda...
Dom kanske behöver en ny Förintelse, en ännu värre...”
― Art Spiegelman, quote from The Complete Maus
“He stared at me. "She liked you, boy." The intensity of his voice and eyes made me blink.
"Yes," I said.
"She did it for you, you know."
"What?"
"Gave up her self, for a while there. She loved you that much. What an incredibly lucky kid you were."
I could not look at him. "I know."
He shook his head with a wistful sadness. "No, you don't. You can't know yet. Maybe someday..."
I knew he was tempted to say more. Probably to tell me how stupid I was, how cowardly, that I blew the best
chance I would ever have. But his smile returned, and his eyes were tender again, and nothing harsher
than cherry smoke came out of his mouth.”
― Jerry Spinelli, quote from Stargirl
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