Top 36 Milena's Quotes
#1. Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.
Geoff Ryman
#2. Growing up signifies a loss. You think you are winning. Really you are losing yourself.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#5. I am an inexhaustible source of awkwardness.
Milena Veen
#6. The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.
Donald Barthelme
#7. I think I'm very complex. That's why I'm still writing after all of these years
Milena Gomez
#8. If I can be an example of getting sober, then I can be an example for starting over
Macklemore
#10. It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn't have skates. Most people fear death. I don't. I'm only afraid of not living. I don't want to be the one behind the ice rink fence, watching other people having fun.
Milena Veen
#11. Writing letters ... means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
[Kafka to Milena]
Kafka, Franz
#14. he hadn't killed or shagged even one single person in front of me - which I felt was a rather good indication of his superior character.
Hettie Ivers
#15. A year later, when I turned sixteen, my father died of cancer. And from then on the dead form a sort of chain, a macabre necklace that weighs a ton, and whose last, closing link will be me, I guess.
Milena Busquets
#16. I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
Franz Kafka
#17. What is everlasting? We are fireworks. Glowing bright and fading, we scatter sparks that soon die out.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#18. How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#19. They call it mourning. And I think that was the reason he tried so hard to be someone who functioned. By holding on to how things had always been, he was mourning what was missing.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#20. It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.
Meghan Wier
#21. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map." - Kirkus Reviews
Milena Banks
#22. How to describe the bitterness? I was a glass, broken, and the space I once enclosed was now the same as the space around. Deserted space, in which I was lost, sharp knives under my feet. With each step it became less likely that I would ever get anywhere.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#23. What you don't do, what you omit, often has more painful consequences than what you do.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#24. I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.
Franz Kafka
#27. I think you always want to be open to things ... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.
James Wolk
#28. When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
Banana Yoshimoto
#29. And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.
Franz Kafka
#30. Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.
John Of Damascus
#31. I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
Rider Strong
#32. You always use that word "remember",' said Milena. 'You say, "remember, team". You never tell us to think.
Geoff Ryman
#33. Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. 'I'm sorry about your shins,' she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. People were generous. Milena had never believed that.
Geoff Ryman
#34. We're never as formidable as when we're in love and our love is reciprocated.
Milena Busquets
#35. You can tell if someone really loves Books by the way they look at them, how they open and close them, how they turn the pages.
Milena Busquets
#36. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.
Milena Michiko Flasar
