12 Quotes by Bianca Marais

The universe speaks in clues and signs, gentle nudges and hints, rather than pontifications and proverbs, commandments and condemnations. I have trusted its signs all my life, which is why I listened when it seemed like it wanted me back here.

Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength.

We are each alone in the bubble of our grief, and while it's true that misery loves company, sorrow is not reduced or diminished in any way when it's shared.

The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature.

I am learning how love wells up and causes great pain when it has nowhere to go. Like breast milk, it has to have an outlet; it can only be nourishing if it is directed away from its source.

We are each alone in the bubble of our grief, and while it’s true that misery loves company, sorrow is not reduced or diminished in any way when it’s shared.

I didn’t know what to say in a world where people were hated and attacked for not being the right color, not speaking the right language, not worshipping the right god or not loving the right people; a world where hatred was the common language, and bricks, the only words.

Here in my homeland, I am always barefoot.

Some good-byes are as gentle and inevitable as sunset, while some blindside you like a collision you didn’t see coming. Some good-byes are schoolyard bullies you are powerless to stop, while others punctuate the end of a relationship because you decided: enough. Some are heartbreaking, leaving you a little more damaged than you were before, others set you free.