“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn't spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Fear is a tool.” — Batman

“Vengeance won’t change the past, mine or anyone else’s. People need hope.” — Batman

“They think I’m hiding in the shadows, but I am the shadows.” — Batman

Fear is a tool. When that light hits the sky, it’s not just a call. It’s a warning. For them.


Batman

I believe what doesn’t kill you simply makes you, stranger. – The Joker, The Dark Knight

“Endure, Master Wayne. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice.” – Alfred Pennyworth, The Dark Knight

“It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me. ” – Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman Begins

“Criminals, by nature, are a cowardly and superstitious lot.” – Bruce Wayne/Batman, Batman: Hush

“Sometimes the truth isn’t good enough, sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.” – Bruce Wayne/Batman, The Dark Knight

“As a man; I am flesh and blood; I can be ignored, I can be destroyed. But as a symbol, I can be incorruptible. I can be everlasting.” – Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins

“I would give everything to feel nothing again.” - Dexter

“Am I a good person doing ‘bad’ things or a bad person doing ‘good’ things?” - Dexter

“We all make rules for ourselves. It’s these rules that help define who we are. So, when we break those rules, we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown.” - Dexter