“I know things have been hard for you. I'm not saying that's an excuse. There's never an excuse for doing the wrong thing, but sometimes people need a little more support if they've been through some tough times.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“If I start to write down my feelings, isn't that the same as writing down my problems? Won't it be dangerous? What if then I feel like I need to tell someone my problems? Will they be angry? Will they leave? "It's just a book", I tell myself. "It's just a book and a book can't leave me. A book can't decide who it wants to be with. The worst that can happen is I don't do it anymore, right? I'll give it a try.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“You have this thing called a life. It’s only you that gets to live it and you only get to do it one time.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“I’m scared of being seen. I’m scared of doing anything. I’m scared of losing another person who loves me. I’d rather just drift.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“feeling of when you think you can never stop laughing and you think if you don't stop, you'll burst in half and that makes you laugh even more, thinking about bursting and then when you stop, you are so tired but it is such a happy tired.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“When I’m invisible I don’t have to feel anything. The pain and grief and fear goes away. I go numb and quiet.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“And I think that if I started to tell someone how I felt I’d never be able to stop so it’s easier just to not feel anything because that way there’s no issue.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“It’s just a book and a book can’t leave me. A book can’t decide who it wants to be with.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“You have this thing called a life. Its only you that gets to live it and you only get to do it one time”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“Today I am officially brave, which is what you are when you're scared but still show up.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“I’m going to give you a chance, deaf girl,”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“I suddenly realise that in the last four years I forgot what it feels like to go to the movies. I forgot about the seats with their velour and plastic arms, the smell of popcorn and the way the blackness takes away normal life and replaces it with a whole new world for an hour and a half. I forgot about the emotion and the excitement and the tension and the relief at the end when everything works out alright.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
“I never realised before that when someone says ‘see you at lunch’ it feels like sunshine.”
― Cecily Anne Paterson, quote from Invisible
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“Nanako, la nueva recepcionista, me ha hablado de esos chicos japoneses que nunca salen de la habitación. ¿Cómo los llaman? ¿Haikumo? Los padres les dejan la comida delante de la puerta, recogen la ropa sucia, a veces vacían la cuña. Los chicos no hablan, y nunca salen de la habitación. Ni asoman la cabeza por la puerta. La mayoría de ellos viven conectados al ordenador. Allí es un gran fenómeno. Deberías estudiarlo, Jacks, es un tema ideal para ti.
Toda una subcultura de chicos que mandan el mundo a la mierda, que dicen dejadme en paz, no nos interesa vuestra mierda. Y no hablamos de chicos disfuncionales de ocho años; muchos de los que optan por excluirse ya tienen veinte o más. Nanako piensa que es una reacción a la enrarecida competencia japonesa. Antes de arriesgarse a perder, se niegan a jugar. La versión intramuros de la Otra Vida, sin el billete de avión.”
― Lionel Shriver, quote from So Much for That
“Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away?
"You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight
“I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.”
― Joss Whedon, quote from Astonishing X-Men, Volume 3: Torn
“Illium grinned, unrepentant. “Want to try again? I’ll move extra slow—you are both so much older, after all.” The last words were a conspiratorial whisper. Galen glanced at Raphael. “How has he survived this long?” “No one can catch him.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Angels' Flight
“I’m not pulling your leg, Chelcie! I’m serious right now. I need to know these things. If Beck and I decide to have kids, I don’t think I could give up sex. There’s no damn way. But I don’t want my kid to come out with a cheese head because his daddy’s ding dong kept playing Whac-A-Mole.”
― Harper Sloan, quote from Cooper
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