Surrender

Sonya Hartnett

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.”

“I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.”

“Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.”

“She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.”

“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”

“My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.”

“I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.”

“There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.”

“I would always be lonely, but no more alone.”

“Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.”

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