41 Quotes by Alison McGhee

You are most powerful when you are most silent....

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

Don’t hurt someone who cares about you like that. You’re not the only person in the world who’s ever been hurt. Don’t be cruel. Don’t go breaking someone else’s heart in the hope that you’ll feel better. Becaues you won’t.

You are most powerful when you are most silent...

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world’s great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

I’ll live in another world, then.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now.

Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Wouldn’t want to miss a war, would I?