“Sometimes I wonder why words can't actually make us bleed.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating
guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for
the ears.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“We all screw up. We all wish we were stronger than we are, and not one of us will get through this life without regret.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“It's weird when someone gets you understands what you would never say not even to yourself.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“But I’m not the one digging her grave; I didn’t open her hole in the earth when I drove away that night or when I couldn’t make her come with us. My dad dug it years ago; he forced her to lie down in it and kept her there by fear and beatings. And when she tried to get out, he stomped her back in. She has been lying there for twenty-five years. Her muscles have atrophied, her joints have stiffened, and she can’t see anything except him and the tight little space she calls home. I don’t know how she’ll get out; I can tug and pull and yank, but it won’t make any difference. She was right: she’s gotta solve it her own way.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“You think I’m sixteen, so I don’t know what love is, right?”
She shakes her head, sad smile on again. “Sometimes I wonder if that’s the only time we really get to love someone completely. Without fear. After that first big breakup, we keep ourselves a little more protected, a little more hidden.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“This is why they say you should look before you leap. They say a lot of things. Carpe diem. Even platitudes contradict each other. Man, this has to be the longest fall ever if I have the time to think all this.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“Finally, Jace suspects it's a bad sign that he is referring to himself in the third person.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“The sky is freckled with stars.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“I don't have to agree with her to love her.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“Words are flowing through my brain like logs down a river.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“I didn't know that an apology could actually help; I always though saying sorry was more about alleviating guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for the ears.”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
“Isn't it too convenient just to forgive yourself, let yourself off the hook? What will keep you from doing it again, then?”
― Swati Avasthi, quote from Split
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“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.”
― Lauren Kate, quote from Fallen
“If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.”
― Philip Pullman, quote from His Dark Materials
“Oskar knew people would catch that trolley anyhow. Doors closed, no stops, machine guns on walls—it wouldn’t matter. Humans were incurable that way. People would try to get off it, someone’s loyal Polish maid with a parcel of sausage. And people would try to get on, some fast-moving athletic young man like Leopold Pfefferberg with a pocketful of diamonds or Occupation złoty or a message in code for the partisans. People responded to any slim chance, even if it was an outside one, its doors locked shut, moving fast between mute walls.”
― Thomas Keneally, quote from Schindler's List
“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, quote from A Little Princess
“This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from The Sun Also Rises (Fiesta)
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