Daisy Darker

Sometimes we love monsters without knowing that’s what they are.

We all have to compromise between the ideas we can afford to live inside and the ones we hope to inhabit.

Nana taught us that the devil is not a fictional man with a red cape and horns, he’s the voice inside our heads that tells us to do things we shouldn’t, he’s the eyes that pretend not to see, and the ears that pretend not to hear.

Sometimes other people can see when a couple are in love long before they can see it for themselves

Even if you hate someone that you once loved, there is still a little bit of love there. Love is like the soil that hate needs in order to grow. I think it’s rare in relationships to have one without the other.’

The human heart beats eighty times a minute, one hundred thousand times a day, and about thirty-five million times a year.

‘The ancient Egyptians thought that the human heart epitomized life, the Greeks believed that it controlled our thoughts and emotions, and the Romans declared that Venus, the goddess of love, set hearts on fire with Cupid’s help.

‘All living things are wild,’ Nancy answered.
‘Even children?’
‘Especially children.’

Sometimes we have to let go of what we had in order to hold on to what we’ve got.

Sometimes the things that make one person sad are the same things that can make another person happy.