45 Quotes by F.K. Preston

People omit the truth all the time. But inevitably you'll be forced to make something up to hide the absence of your honesty. Did you get into the game already a liar? Or was it something you made yourself into along the way?

From a lover to a life, the one thing you'll never get back is a moment.

My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it’s warm when it’s cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that’s why I love it so dearly.

Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

Am I entitled to my ego if my ego has manufactured impressive results?

Live this life as gently as you would breathe in the seaside air. Then release all those dreams and wonders to the water. Keep breathing until you’re inches from where you wish to be. Then exhale, remembering that gentle life you grew up from.

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies.