“The trick is not to mind.
Not to mind about it hurting.
Not to mind about anything.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“The new trick is to stay in the present ... Get lost in the detail of it ... Enjoy it!”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“I thought that exile meant you had to leave your country and you could go anywhere--somewhere in the sun, a tropical island, say, or America. But exile doesn't mean that; it means you are banished to a specific place, and guess what, that place isn't in the sun and is no paradise, it's not even America. It's some cold, miserable place like Siberia, where you don't know anyone and you can barely survive. It's another prison.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“What do you want to do?" Gabriel asks.
"Not commit suicide," I say. "Wait for Marcus.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“No existe nada bueno ni malo, es el pensamiento humano el que lo hace parecer así. Hamlet, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“But the more store you set in visions the more they have a habit of coming true.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“Let's suppose Marcus has threatened to kill a member of your family: Arran, say. The only way you can save Arran is by killing Marcus."
"Let's suppose something more realistic. The Council threatens a member of my family: Arran, say. The only way I can stop them killing Arran is by killing Marcus.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“Nice basket too. You can never have too many baskets, I’ve found.” She studies the basket, turning it round. “If you learn nothing else today, at least remember that.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“Finally, the day of our meeting crawls into the light and then takes a year to drag itself to the afternoon.”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
“El truco es que no te importe. Que no te importe que te duela, que no te importe nada. El truco de que no te importe es clave...”
― Sally Green, quote from Half Bad
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“You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately”
― Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Cancer
“The only thing that scares me now is me.
The [person] I might become. The [person] I dont ever want to be.
Everybody has fears, right? But how many have my fear?
Enough, it seems. Because there's a name for it.
Autophobia.
Fear of oneself.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Need
“I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, quote from Wintergirls
“Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.”
― Marilynne Robinson, quote from Gilead
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
― Gillian Flynn, quote from Sharp Objects
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