Home / Quotes / Quote by V.E. Schwab

Quote by V.E. Schwab

“What is the point, she thinks, of loving something you are doomed to lose? Of holding on to someone who cannot hold on to you?”

Quote by V.E. Schwab

Book:Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Work

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Browse famous quotes and profile details for V.E. Schwab. more

You May Also Like

“I do not hold life dear enough to be afraid of death.”

Loss Depression Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers

Book:The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“... we always regret what we lost, even if it was just suffering.”

Author:Kovaly heda margolius

“When I worry about the birds, I am also worrying about watching all my possible selves go extinct. And when I worry that no one will see the value of these murky waters, it is also a worry that I will be stripped of my own unusable parts, my own mysteries, and my own depths.”

Loss Identity Vulnerability Extinction Environmentalism Inner Life Selfhood Connection To Nature

Book:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Source: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“I keep apologizing for being, me, even when I am not myself. I keep falling to pieces, even when I am not broken. I keep forgetting all the moments that died in my memory. I keep looking for anyone, but myself. How do I keep myself from leaving me behind?”

Love Poetry Lost Loss Self Love Misery Poetry Quotes Dementia Jenim Dibie Feeling Lost

Author:Jenim Dibie

“How little those things matter to me after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps this is a just punishment for those whohave been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can say that you were a good daughter, Miriam jo., and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Miriam jo. Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me.”

Death Loss Regret Forgiveness Fatherhood

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I was lost and would remain lost and all I could expect was to survive. So I had made decisions like someone who wasn't a person, who just wanted to survive.”

Loss Identity Survival Self Awareness Resilience Isolation Dehumanization Emotional Struggle

Book:Borne

Source: Borne

“I meant it. But only if it was both of us. If it was just me, I would melt into the city. I would disappear and give up my name and my past and any hope of a home, and become no one.”

Love Loss Identity Transformation Vulnerability Belonging Self Sacrifice Anonymity

Book:Borne

Source: Borne

“It's only in something's absence that you realize how much space it takes up.”

Book:The Lost Bookshop

Source: The Lost Bookshop

“I use words to create and manipulate images, metaphors and symbols and attach them to people, actions, events and feelings.”

Love Poetry Loss Trauma

Book:The Work Bench

Source: The Work Bench

“Every secret, when seen with the right eyes, turns into a story that speaks.” ― Korkut Çetin, Kayıp Kedi Heykelinin Sırrı (The Secret of the Lost Cat Statue)”

Inspirational Wisdom Life Lessons Courage Mystery Adventure Discovery Curiosity Secrets Children S Literature

Book:The Secret of the Lost Cat Statue

Source: The Secret of the Lost Cat Statue