“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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“Elise?" He looked at her with a pleading, puppy-dog expression in his eyes.
"Yes?"
"I love you.”
― Nicky Charles, quote from The Mating
“She was probably male, to judge from the angular mazelike patterns quilting her shirt. I wasn’t entirely certain. It wouldn’t have mattered, if I had been in Radch space. Radchaai don’t care much about gender, and the language they speak—my own first language—doesn’t mark gender in any way.”
― Ann Leckie, quote from Ancillary Justice
“Livie, I think you’re completely fucked up.”
Chunks of cheesecake fly out of my mouth and splatter against the deck’s glass panel as I choke on my fork. My sister has a twisted sense of humor.”
― K.A. Tucker, quote from One Tiny Lie
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, quote from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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