“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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“It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.”
― K.J. Parker, quote from Devices and Desires
“Pause to ponder the metaphysics: an elk running for its life is converted to wolf flesh and wolf bone and wolf nerve whose dedication becomes chasing elk who run for their lives to avoid the fate that is pursing them, a fate built entirely from creatures just like themselves. Predator presages Borg. Overhead the sky livens with playful croaks also made of elk. Later, predator falls, freeing all former elk made wolf, made raven, made bear, to resume a brief stint as grass. Grass's predator, elk, grazes. Grass again becomes elk, and one of Forever's many pinwheels clicks one full turn.”
― Carl Safina, quote from Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“Rose wasn't going to write a book or swim the Channel or do anything different - because once you're pregnant, you're finished.”
― Kate Quinn, quote from The Alice Network
“The Church’s war against women occurred not under Christ—who by all accounts held women as equals to men—but through the writings of St Irenaeus and Tertullian, and that most cruel woman-hater of them all, St Paul, whose hostile views on women were unfortunately included in the Bible. But let me be clear, it is not only a Catholic problem; it is a Christian one: Martin Luther, the scourge of the old Church, shares its views on women. He once wrote: “Girls begin to talk and to stand on their feet sooner than boys because weeds always grow up more quickly than good crops.” Weeds! Weeds!”
― Matthew Reilly, quote from The Tournament
“Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked.
There was always a broken doll.
Why did there always have to be a damn doll?”
― Sarah Beth Durst, quote from The Queen of Blood
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