21 Quotes by Adriana Mather

Almost everything worth believing in cannot be seen. Love, for instance.

My dad always says that you don’t get to choose what happens in the world, only how you react to it.

We always think that history is fact and literature is fiction. But the truth is, they are all stories.

I have always thought that love is not all feelings and instinct, but is instead a generosity of time. That if you truly love someone or something, you will give them all your hours without a second thought. Ideal moments are exactly what they sound like, ideal and hard not to enjoy. But love has never been about ideal moments for me, but rather everyday ones that are brightened because the other person is there.

Sometimes you do things because you believe in a person, and not because you believe in everything they do.

But sometimes people need to be believed in more than they need to be told what is so.

People believe a lot of weird stuff in Salem.

Why is it that when you’re headed for a disaster, some part of you almost always knows?

I followed the spiked iron fence around the church, ‘First Church in Salem, Founded in 1629’, the sign reads. The fence ends, and there’s a big wooden trellis covered in vines.