"From Sand and Ash" Quotes

Fear is strange. It settles on chests and seeps through skin, through layers of tissue, muscle, and bone, and collects in a soul-sized black home, sucking the joy out of life, the pleasures, the beauty. But not the hope. Somehow, the hope is the only thing resistant to the fear, and it is that hope that makes the next breath possible, the next step, the next tiny act of rebellion, even if that rebellion is simply staying alive.

But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.

The world will say that love is not love unless it is practically applied. But I say society measures itself by how it treats its unloved.

Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing.

Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome.

She was the sun, and he was a man who had spent too long in the darkness. He knew that all his life, he had been a little lost, a little alone. He'd never told her that before, never told her that she was the thing he'd been searching for.

We are all part of the same story, each of us different chapters. We may not have the power to choose setting or plot, but we can choose what kind of character we want to be.

Hope is the only thing that keeps me alive. Even when I don't want it, hope is there, waiting for me to embrace it.

You can't dwell on what might have been. You must keep moving forward, no matter how difficult it may seem.