“Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“I gripped against her like she was metal and I was all full of lightning, charged up and jagged and of that moment alone.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“You couldn't make up something that looked so right.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“I reckoned some things you do best to remember. But sometimes it's best to forget.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“So much death.
So many hearts turned to stone and days that were stolen. The last things living and we were just ripping each other in pieces that could never again be put back whole.
It ends here, I swore to myself. It must end here.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“I studied the dusty street, the plastic walls and dries patches of piss. And I guess it was being left with just shantytowns and Steel Cities that got folk started with the tree building. Because even for the rich freaks, life's ugly. But build a tree, and you got something worth looking at. Something worth believing in.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“All ways are the worst way.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
“Zion. Trees. You're talking about heaven, boy. We be heading to hell.'
'I don't know,' I said. 'Could be one's really just the same as the other.”
― Chris Howard, quote from Rootless
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“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, quote from The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“I don’t believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of the living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.”
― Paul Kalanithi, quote from When Breath Becomes Air
“A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.”
― Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, quote from The Leopard
“Rose laughed at that. “Oh, this I’ve got to see, comrade. Dimitri Belikov, badass god, installing a baby’s car seat.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from The Ruby Circle
“But I'm sick of this bloody jagged graph. You know, two steps up, one step down. It's so painful. It's so slow. It's like this endless game of snakes and ladders." And Mum just looked at me as if she wanted to laugh or maybe cry, and said, "But Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, quote from Finding Audrey
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