“People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Just as a fever makes cold feel colder, love can make loneliness feel lonelier.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Easy things are worthless... It’s the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for...If we don’t fight other people’s curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where’s the meaning in that?”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“When no one can see who you are, no one really knows you. The loneliness must be like an ulcer that’s always gnawing at your gut.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Fear is beside the point when you're faced with the thing you fear.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“I am worried we've run out of words, and am hoping she is just saving them for later.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“We are surrounded by so many books, so many words, so many thoughts... and not a single one can help us. I think, What's the point of all magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“News flash," he says. "I'm gay, not a witch. Gay and witch is Dumbedore, and last time I checked, he was still just a guy in a book.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“All secrets lead back to the big secret. To give one thing away means to give everything away.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“It's okay," I say-perhaps the biggest lie of all. But it's one of those things you do. You say something like "It's okay" not because it is, in fact, okay, but because you're hoping these words will somehow make it okay. Even though they never, ever do.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“All couples get nostalgic about the start of their story.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Easy things are worthless," Laurie says. and I realzie he's talking to both Sean and me. "It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“All you really need to do is let the comic book geeks know and the rest of the world will follow.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Every fight for survival is really a fight to return to the inconsequential concerns of the mundane.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“We are the time. We are the breathing.
We are the air.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Easy things are worthless," Laurie says, and I realize he's talking to both Sean and me. "It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for."
"LIke Aquaman?" Seam asks, a little confused.
"Like Aquaman. Or the Wolfman, if you're into that. Or the Invisible Boy. If we don't fight other people's curses. what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“Be honest and don't pretend you're not falling truly, madly, and deeply for this guy. Denial will get you in trouble.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“The lies we tell ourselves are the worst ones.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
“I want to keep saying hello. Because it all feels like hello.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Invisibility
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“There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle. … The graduates snicker. A steady job! They’ve never heard of such a thing.”
― Max Barry, quote from Company
“Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.”
― A.M. Homes, quote from This Book Will Save Your Life
“I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size.”
― quote from A Woman of the Iron People
“Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, quote from Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life
“A warbler singing— somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket”
― Matsuo Bashō, quote from Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
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