34 Quotes by Ali Benjamin

We were made of stardust.

If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better. If people were silent, it would make what they did say, whenever they chose to say it, more important. If people were silent, they could read one another's signals, the way underwater creatures flash lights at one another, or turn their skin different colors.

Her sabah savaştığım,karmakarışık saçlarımı düşünüyorum.Yaşamım boyunca,dolaşık saçlarımı fırçalayıp açmak için saatler harcadım ama saçlarımı ne kadar özenle tutamlara ayırmaya çalışsam da hemen dolaşıveriyorlar.Açılması olanaksız bir hale gelinceye kadar birbirlerine giriyorlar.Bazen makası kapıp oracıkta düğümü kesmekten başka elden bir şey gelmiyor.Ama insanlardan oluşan bir düğümü nasıl kesebilirsiniz ki?

There’s no single right way to say goodbye to someone you love. But the most important thing is that you keep some part of them inside you.

Saying goodbye is important. It’s what allows us to begin to live again.

A person can become invisible simply by staying quiet. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.

Sometimes you want things to change so badly, you can’t even stand to be in the same room with the way things actually are.

Mrs. Turton says when something happens that no one can explain, it means you have bumped up against the edge of human knowledge. And that is when you need science. Science is the process for finding the explanations that no one else can give you.

It’s peculiar how no-words can be better than words. Silence can say more than noise, in the same way that a person’s absence can occupy even more space than their presence did.