"Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard."

--

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Crossed”, p.142, Penguin

Ally Condie

#Pain Quotes #Remember Quotes #Forget Quotes

“A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.”
“Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?”
“How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in his death robes, perfect servant of the system, hungry, his eyes full of attention, his wings pure light”
“How are you managing the velocity of change?”
“When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.”
“O hasten, Lord, these promised days, When Israel shall rejoice, And Jew and Gentile join in praise, With one united voice!”
“With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.”
“I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.”

You may also like:

Ally Carter
Author
James Dashner
Author
Kiera Cass
Author
Lauren Oliver
Author
Maggie Stiefvater
Writer
Scott Westerfeld
Writer
Suzanne Collins
Writer
Tahereh Mafi
Author
Veronica Roth
Novelist