“People are not totally good or bad, black or white - unless we are talking of evil psychos.
We, human beings, are somewhere between angels and demons. That is what makes us, human beings, lovely imperfect.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“A mirror does not exist by itself. A mirror is a half. Half is done by the piece. The other half has to be done by the beholder. You need to be the half to see what you’re looking for, so the mirror can exist. As you should do with other persons.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer and forgetting that the answer is just beside us. You have to learn to ask and to listen. If one does not listen, the other does not exist. When the other does not exist, one is alone. I don’t want to be alone, do you?”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“A tree that falls makes a lot of noise. But a woodland that grows and spreads its roots, does it quietly.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“He towered over her, as intense and savage as only he could be, making her feel small and delicate in comparison, surrounded by his utter maleness. She felt trapped and she wanted to stay in his cage forever.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“If all of us in the world just shared love, just a little, charity foundations wouldn’t be needed.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can't answer and forgetting that the answer is just beside us”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“You don't have to thank me. Ever. You're my wife and I want to share everything with you. Every little thing.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: Pandora's Box
“The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.”
― Daphne du Maurier, quote from My Cousin Rachel
“We all have to die, Johnrock—every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it’s the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Confessor
“When she returned she handed her mother an oblong frame, hand carved, enclosing Elnora's picture, taken by a schoolmate's camera. She wore her storm-coat and carried a dripping umbrella. From under it looked her bright face; her books and lunchbox were on her arm, and across the bottom of the frame was carved, "Your Country Classmate.”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, quote from A Girl of the Limberlost
“I leave her to chemically combust and find Wren in the student council office, filling out extremely interesting paperwork. He’s buried behind piles of the stuff. I can barely see tufts of his blonde hair poking out. I reach into the paperwork pile and shove the two halves aside. Hundreds of them fall off the desk and to the floor. Papers drift through the air like snowflakes. Fat, boring-ass snowflakes. Wren looks up, face slack with shock.
“Whatcha doing?” I ask.
“Dividing up funding for the other clubs,” He whispers, clearly distraught. A paper plops onto his head and slides off dejectedly. I’m respectful for three seconds.
“So anyway, I had this nightmare in which Jack was sexy and Kayla died.”
― Sara Wolf, quote from Lovely Vicious
“Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. It’s a special day, for Lily, for us, for everything the three of us stand for. Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn’t, because we’ll always live on the edge until the day we die.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Always
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