Alicia Gingrich > Alicia's Quotes

“She’d been called many disparaging things in her life. Alarmingly all beginning with the letter F. Flighty, foolish, forgetful, and, by a strange turn of events, she was finally able to add the final F. Fucked.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“We're all monsters in the end. At least mine lives in the light.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“if there is a light then i am going to
swallow it. if there is a god then
i’m going to make him cry.”
― S. Osborn

“Not a god’s chosen, but a god’s cursed. That’s what we all are.”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

“I have belonged to you in a way you haven’t to me.”
― Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

“All I have are my dreams, and I'm beginning to realize that might not be enough”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“Home is where you find love”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“the older I am, the more I resent the implication that it's my responsibility to repay them for my existence”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“this house is my own personal nightmare and every day is somehow worst the last but can you leave? asks the voice in my head. I don't know if there was ever any other choice.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“how much are you willing to sacrifice for your dreams”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“This place is my home. These people are my home.
I have memories in the cracks of every sidewalk, good and bad. Everywhere I go, I'll see the faces of people who have cherished me. I can run and run and run, but I'm never going to escape.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“We're raised to see our parents as infallible, to believe they're incapable of making mistakes– but what about when they do? When they keep making them? What about when their mistakes hurt us?”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“I'm not sure how old I was when I realized my parents were never going to love me the way I wanted them to– that their love was conditional, dependent on my own behavior and whether I fit their definition of success.”
― Tashie Bhuiyan, A Show for Two

“I adore politicians. The last one I met came to the door at election time. He was so persuasive I almost had his child.”
― Moira Buffini, Dinner

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Give your friendships the magic you would give a romance. Because they're just as important. Actually, for us, they're way more important.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I wish I could be as subtle and beautiful. All I know how to do is scream.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“Sometimes i think if nobody spoke to me, i'd never speak again.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Love can’t cure a mental illness.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume Four

“People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Most adults see teenagers as confused kids who don't understand much, while they're the pillars of knowledge and experience and know exactly what is right at all times.
I think the truth is that everyone in the entire world is confused and nobody understands much of anything at all.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“In an otherwise mediocre existence, we chose to feel passion.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This

“I feel a sudden wave of nerves, which is a bit irrational, since me and Juliet are practically soulmates -- two beings who found each other in the depths of the internet against all odds.”
― Alice Oseman, I Was Born for This