“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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“Watch that mouth, cher. I own a ball gag. I know how to use it, he growled.”
― Shayla Black, quote from Wicked Ties
“In business, as in politics, the public is ever so tolerant of those who slime.”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Practical Demonkeeping
“It was like this blackness that crept into the corners of my life until everything was grey and dirty. My insides felt burnt out, like if you cut me open, all you would find would be smoke. No heart. No bones. There was nothing left, just the anger. It followed me everywhere. It sat on my bed and watched me sleep and when I had to eat, it looked at me across the table.”
― Tanya Byrne, quote from Heart-Shaped Bruise
“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
― Donald Miller, quote from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“When I look back at those days I have no doubt that Providence guided us, not only across those snowfields, but across the storm-white sea that separated Elephant Island from our landing-place on South Georgia. I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four, not three. I said nothing to my companions on the point, but afterwards Worsley said to me, ‘Boss, I had a curious feeling on the march that there was another person with us.’ Crean confessed to the same idea. One feels ‘the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech’ in trying to describe things intangible, but a record of our journeys would be incomplete without a reference to a subject very near to our hearts.”
― Ernest Shackleton, quote from South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
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