26 Quotes by Michelle Cuevas

It turns out that it’s possible, if you are careful, to feel all the feelings that come with having and caring for a black hole, but to still not be consumed by it. I was, I realized, no longer afraid – not of this darkness, or any other.

Maybe what I’d thought was my superpower was actually just this: I was finally able to see that nothing was simply good or bad, that everyone contained multitudes, and that I, like anyone, was a beautiful, swirling, chaotic galaxy of all the things that had ever happened to me.

Jacques wants a pancake shaped like Mozart’s Symphony No. 40! In G minor!

This, I thought, was why the bees and birds landed on him – he clearly had a whole world inside him with rivers of honey and a heart made from flowers. Bernard was just like a closed bud, an acorn with a tree inside, a song yet to be heard.

The truth is... you’re only as invisible as you feel, imaginary or not.

You rarely know, in the moment, when it’s the last time you’ll do something. Most of the time, the whole thing just sneaks away in the night, never to be seen or heard from again, not even sending back so much as a postcard to say hello.

I guess that’s what pain can do if you allow it: crack you open, let light in, and show you what’s on the inside.

Change is the nature of nature,‘” she read. “’For example, stars expand as they grow older. They grow from a star, to a red super-giant, to a supernova. When a massive star explodes at the end of its life, the explosion dispenses different elements-helium, carbon, oxygen, iron, nickel-across the universe, scattering starduest. That stardust now makes up the planets, including ours.