Quotes from book

Good Morning, Midnight

“You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.”

“that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.”

“Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad…”

“I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.”

“Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.”

“I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.”

“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”

“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”

“Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”

“We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were… There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.”

“… I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.”

“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.”