“You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.
To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.
Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“I can’t imagine what it would be like to have sex with a man. To be so intimate with another person. Not to hide anything. I don’t know if I could do that. It would have to be a boy anyway, not a grown man, someone as scared as me.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“Hey, Ernessa, where the fuck are you?”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“I spent most of this weekend sitting on the sofa reading Proust. The only time my mother left her studio, which she locked behind her, was to go to Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt’s house.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“Voor iedereen die zich afvraagt of het mogelijk is de puberteit te overleven, is een bevestigend antwoord de enige geruststelling die ik kan geven.”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
“Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?”
― Rachel Klein, quote from The Moth Diaries
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“Grace Town was a chemical explosion inside my heart. She was a star that'd gone supernova. For a few fleeting moments there was light and heat and pain, brighter than a galaxy, and in her wake she left nothing but darkness. But the death of stars provides the building blocks of life. We're all made of star stuff. We're all made of Grace Town.”
― Krystal Sutherland, quote from Our Chemical Hearts
“I don’t want to control her; I just want to keep her. Her gentle spirit, her kind loveliness has become the center of my world and I’m not sure I know how to function anymore without it.”
― Emma Chase, quote from Royally Matched
“I think when you’re kids, you’re less . . . defined? Then you get older and you start deciding what kind of person you want to be, and it doesn’t always match up with what your friends are turning into.”
― Tana French, quote from Broken Harbor
“Bir şeyi yapmanın en çabuk, en kolay ve en ucuz yolu ilk seferinde düzgün yapmaktır.”
― K.J. Parker, quote from Devices and Desires
“Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina”
― Carl Safina, quote from Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
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