“Love can be broken but never forgotten.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“You're in my head, you're in my heart, and I've lost so much already. I can't lose you too.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“Sometimes you could get so turned around that even breathing became complicated.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“It was where I was supposed to be now. But it wasn't where I wanted to be.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“I was the girl who had hair like blood.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“I know what it's like to lose everything you had, to lose your whole life.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“All I saw was Ben, and I knew that all he saw was me. The whole world didn't - it was there, but it didn't matter.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“Mom said that loving art was just as important as being able to create it.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“We could be something amazing- or we could end up destroying each other.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“I hadn’t been that interested in a hug. I could get
them anytime.
Or at least, that’s what I’d thought.”
― Ivy Devlin, quote from Low Red Moon
“After all is said and done, what is life anyway? Aren’t we all going to die in the end? I believe life is only worth living if, while we are on this earth, we can do honorable things.”
― Ayşe Kulin, quote from Last Train to Istanbul
“Imagination is ever changing and never static.”
― Matt Myklusch, quote from Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation
“Conventions are often surrounded with the solemn language of morality, but in fact they have little to do with it.”
― Frans de Waal, quote from Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We are Who We Are
“Because the amygdala can become hypersensitive, chronic stress can make you more jumpy and anxious. This is why a war veteran with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will hit the floor and cover his head when he hears the loud blast of fireworks. Before he has a chance to think about it, the blast reminds him of an improvised explosive device (IED) exploding or a gunshot. His amygdala triggers the fight-or-flight response—a false alarm. When you experience severe trauma or excessive chronic stress, the once-cooperative partnership between your hippocampus and your amygdala becomes skewed in favor of the amygdala. This is because the hippocampus is assaulted by excess cortisol and glutamate when the amygdala is pumped up. Cortisol and glutamate act to excite the amygdala, and the more it is excited, the more easily it is triggered.”
― quote from Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life
“Even as Solomon tried to understand how he got that, his dad looked at him in the dim flicker of light. “They cut his tongue out,” he barely whispered to him. “We need to go.” Jimmy”
― Lucian Bane, quote from Desecrating Solomon 3
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