Zoe Marriott Quotes

Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults.

I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too.

Why does it hurt so much? Why does it have to hurt?

Your heart is beating so fast," he said softly, the words barely more than a whisper. "I can feel your blood humming under my hand. Are you frightened of me?

It's as if people
normal people
are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca ... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly.

Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?

Life is the improbable thing. It is so fragile that it can be taken away at any second, without reason or logic or warning.

Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.

I thought of the words of an old song, a sad song, that I had sung for him once: Oh, my love, I would shatter my own heart a thousand times before I hurt yours. But I had already shattered my own heart, and it had made no difference.

Trusting anyone can get you killed.

Love comes like storm clouds
Fleeing from the wind, and casts
Shadows on the moon.

I've learned a lot about love over these last months. And part of what I've learned is that you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head.

I've been in darkness nearly all my life, and you brought light into my existance for the first time. And maybe that's why I started to ... have feeling for you. You seemed like a dream. [ ... ] But that's just infatuation. Hero worship. It's not real. I've learned a lot about love in these last months. Abd part of what I've learned is you have to want someone for who they are, not who you want them to be. You have to love a real person, not some dream in your head. Neither of us could have lived that way.

It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better." "Hurting

My first memory is of the smell of sunwarmed earth.

I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me.

All humans are made, in essence, of starstuff, and I sometimes wonder if the starstuff still calls out to us.

You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.

It may seem strange to you, but there are no such creatures in Athazie. There is an animal-a very large animal-that lives on the plains and is much the same shape. We call it gadahama. The golden hunter. He does not say meep, meep as these tiny ones do. His voice is like this.' He drew in a deep breath, then let out a deafening roar. The cats fled in all directions at once as they scrambled away.

When Akira had recited the haiku to me the first time, I had been confused, thinking it compared love to storm clouds because they were capricious and fleeting. Perhaps love was capricious and fleeting, but that was not the true meaning of the poem. The true meaning was this: that love, when it came, was powerful enough to transform everything. Anything. Even the unchanging, ever-changing face of the Moon herself.

On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us.