“Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“I don’t know how he does it—how he makes me forget the clock and the pain. Sometimes, even if it’s just for a few seconds, I can forget how crap my life is.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“three is the worst hour. it's too dark, too bright, too late, too early. It's when the questions come, droning like flies, nudging me one by one until my mind's full of them”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes?”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Düşünüyorum da bir otobüse binersem ve yeterince uzağa gidersem, en sonunda dünyanın kenarından düşerim.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There are some things you can't change ... And there are some things you can”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“We humans screw up everything in the short time we've got”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“De golpe siento lo que es coraje. El coraje es permanecer quieto, aunque desees salir corriendo. El coraje es plantarte y darte la vuelta para encarar aquello que temes [...] Es abrir bien los ojos y aguantarle la mirada a ese miedo.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There's nothing mysterious about death or what comes after. There's just nothing.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps time eats away all relationships”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Yeah, there’s that, too, those razor-edged comments that come from nowhere like nunchuks.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
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“We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.”
― Alan Moore, quote from Watchmen
“Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
nella miseria...”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from The Divine Comedy
“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from American Gods
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan
“It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”
― Patrick Süskind, quote from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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