Kelleen Goerlitz Books & Quotes

“[T]he life of a person does not first leave when the heart weakens and ceases to beat. The life of a person first leaves when they are witness to the violence of man.”

Violence Human Nature Violence In Society Violence And War Human Nature Quotes Violence And Humans

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“When one does not know their own self the madness spreads within without recognition, without hindrance. You don’t even know the beast is there until it strikes and with a sting of fangs on flesh, tears you apart leaving the remains poisoned with venom.”

Human Nature Self Awareness Knowing Self

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“People choose because there are choices. And because they themselves created those choices. People created evil, molded the clay with their own hands. And as they created evil they acknowledged its opposite as good.”

Choices Human Nature Good And Evil

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“We don’t care about causing pain to others, don’t even consider it. We don’t ask ourselves if these desires once fulfilled actually filled us at all…I’m not afraid to be a greedy, prideful, lustful, shallow-hearted bastard like the rest of them. I’m scared to death that I’m not like them, that I can’t live with what I’ve done.”

Human Nature Selfishness Causing Harm

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“We all at some point realize we’re not so much stuck in our roles as we are stuck in our own heads. It’s there where the roles exist in the first place.”

Roles Human Nature Stuck In Our Heads

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“The happiest people in society are those that don’t know each other too well.”

Human Nature Society Problem Society Individualism

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Man labels creatures in the wild as beasts for they see violence and malice in their eyes. Truth is it’s just a reflection. There are no beasts in the world of animals, only in the world of men.”

Human Nature Labeling Beasts And Men

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“How long do you think it’ll be until instead of focusing on the light in front of them, they’ll begin to notice how the dark seems to ebb into their circle of light as thick and slow as spilled molasses. The anticipation of complete darkness will blind them and the light will be wasted. It’s strange when people treasure something more when it’s gone than when they had it.”

Regret Light And Darkness Wasted Love

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“It was never you. It was the feeling. The feeling of being wanted. The feeling of being looked at and feeling seen. The feeling of being someone needed by someone else. And feelings can’t be kept in a cage - if allowed, they do the caging.”

Feelings Regret False Love Being Wanted Being Needed

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“[T]he truth doesn’t ask you for anything other than just to live it, to open your eyes and take in all that it can give - [a]ll that it can give to you.”

Truth Truth Quotes Living In Truth

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“I am like you: aware of humility. I cannot stop anything at all; I’m a mere human. But perhaps I can learn from it. Remember the screams and the tears. Remember the flickers of hope that when given a bit air may burst into a roaring fire. What’s better, fake happiness or genuine sadness and understanding of reality?”

Reality Human Nature Humility

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“The ground was the only constant, that and the stars. The bright lights seemed to shine just for me on some nights…With the stars there I never felt alone. I do think that is why I still believe in peace, the stars kept me in the light.”

Stars Peace Peace Quotes Light And Darkness

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

“Oh, do not blame the gods for man’s war. Do not blame the hearts of man either, for so many are good, and I say so from being witness to their many acts. If you must blame something, blame the eyelids of us men that seem to close right when peace is in front of us and open right when it leaves.”

War Peace Human Nature Peace Quotes War Quotes Human Nature Quotes

Book:The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Source: The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

Kelleen Goerlitz Books

The Complete Works of a Lost Girl

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