“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.”

She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.

While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.

Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

And that is how time heals, not by erasing but by blurring all the memories.

I pencil you in my heart to erase you out when the loving gets hard.

Time is a gentleman! It never erases beautiful things.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

No day shall erase you from the memory of time.

There are times i hate you cause i cant erase the times you hurt me and put tears on my face.