From High Mountains Aftersong Quotes

#1. In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

Michelle Yeoh

#2. Youth's longing misconceived inconsistency.
Those whom I deemed
Changed to my kin, the friends of whom I dreamed,
Have aged and lost our old affinity:
One has to change to stay akin to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Three courses open lie to wealth, to give, enjoy, or lose, Who shrinketh from the former two, perforce the third doth choose.

Bhartrhari

#4. It was like being in an exciting movie, except I didn't know whether it was a romance or a comedy.

Louise Rennison

#5. There is a sort of magic in striking a match and lighting a cigarette, the way the match flares and the tobacco singes, the way the smoke rises in curls, that feeling of peace as the nicotine hits the back of the throat. I will give up smoking when they invent something better than smoking.

Chloe Thurlow

#6. Maybe teach the others who were like me: broken in places and trying to fight it - trying to learn who they were around the dark and pain.

Sarah J. Maas