A place where a girl had grown up, and a boy had burned alive, where a violin had been shattered, and a stranger had been shot—
b3463452218hat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster . . . if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Hell is empty, All the devils are here.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TEMPEST
Evelina Todorovahat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
“Night has a way of blurring lines in the psyche. It makes us feel free. Studies show people are generally less inhibited after dark, more open to influence and”—he stifled a cough, then continued—“primal behaviors.
Evelina Todorovahat Zitat gemachtvor 3 Jahren
People were messy. They were defined not only by what they’d done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo.
marien jaumehat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
“By not letting go,” she said softly. “By holding on, to anger, or hope, or whatever it is that keeps you fighting.”
You, he thought.
marien jaumehat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
“One hundred and eighty-four,” she said.
He paused. “What?”
Nicoleta Petreahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.
So make it worth the pain.
Nicoleta Petreahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
Denial—that’s what it was called.
The idea that if a thing went unsaid, it didn’t really exist, because words had power, words gave weight and shape and force, and the withholding of them could keep a thing from being real,
paulohat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
place where the air was still full of blood and hunger and heat, where the girl had escaped and the boy had fallen, and the monsters were defeated—