WORDS

A collection of quotes from books I've read, compiled on this page for the ease of access.

[godengine]

There may be no darkness in the world that cannot be illuminated. But darkness itself will never disappear.

Nisioisin - Bakemonogatari: Part One

[godengine]

If I ever tried to blend in, if I ever did something as overambitious as trying to get along with everyone, I'd only end up causing even more trouble. That's something every outside knows.

NISIOISIN - Imperfect Girl: Volume 1

[godengine]

So long as you don't cause trouble to others, supposedly, you'll be allowed to behave however you want. But of course, as far as society's concerned, if you're an outsider who's unable to blend in, some people consider that enough to count as "causing trouble."

NISIOISIN - Imperfect Girl: Volume 1

[godengine]

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

William Osler

[godengine]

Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Mitch Albom - For One More Day

[godengine]

When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Mitch Albom - For One More Day

[dom-lyne]

He feels a rush of anger towards her perfection amid a sea of guilt for not being good enough for her memory.

Dominic Lyne - And There an End, but Now They Rise Again (via dom-lyne)

[godengine]

An alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout and apologise when he finds out. A junkie will steal it and help you look for it.

Jerry Stahl - The Heroin Chronicles

[godengine]

The past is the past and that is what time means, and time itself is one more name for death, and Heaven itself is a state where ‘the former things have passed away’.

C. S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

[godengine]

I know that the thing I want is exactly the thing I can never get.

C. S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

[godengine]

I know the truth of love. It's the only truth that is still heard and understood in your very being: the opposite of death.

Roberto Saviano - The Opposite of Death

[godengine]

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or re ection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer.

C. S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

[godengine]

Love is not the whole of a man’s life.

C. S. Lewis - A Grief Observed

[godengine]

Creativeness is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Thomas M. Disch - 334

[godengine]

Happy Ever After

DOCTOR: Times end, River, because they have to. Because there’s no such thing as happy ever after. It’s just a lie we tell ourselves because the truth is so hard. 

RIVER: No, Doctor, you’re wrong. Happy ever after doesn’t mean forever. It just means time. A little time.

– Steven Moffat - Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

[godengine]

When we stand in front of a coffin, we see only what is good, or what we want to see.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind

[godengine]

Do you know what it's like to lose someone suddenly?  You wake up one morning and you're this person and before you go to sleep that night, supposing you can actually go to sleep, you find out you're someone else entirely.

Anderson Prunty - The Man with the Face like a Bruise