Cristiane Serruya Quotes

War comes home— invades it, literally— and every day is another combat. Only, there’s nothing available, nothing real to fight. And you never know when the next attack will come, only from whom it will come.

~ Cristiane Serruya

War is strange. In the beginning it is about people, in the end it is about power. Power couldn’t care less how many die.

~ Cristiane Serruya

We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when one can’t lie to oneself. You have to learn to listen to what she is not saying. Listen to her silence. And listen to yours, too.

~ Cristiane Serruya

You know what I’ve learned? Most people are like a leaf, letting themselves drift and turn in the air. Eventually, they fall to the ground. But, others— very few others— are like stars. They have light within themselves to be their own guide. Sometimes, we look at the sky and don’t see the stars, because there is too much light bedimming them. To find the stars again, we have to go to a dark place.

~ Cristiane Serruya

It was all about money. Dirty, bloody money. It can come and go so easily. They don't see that life is what's important. Love, friendship, trust, respect, a daily routine, someone to grow old with, siblings to cherish, family, a home; things people don't give a damn about until they lose them, things money can't bring back.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Sometimes, meu amor, we lose too much time asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer and forgetting that the answer is just beside us. You have to learn to ask and to listen. If one does not listen, the other does not exist. When the other does not exist, one is alone. I don’t want to be alone, do you?

~ Cristiane Serruya

Don't cry. She wouldn't like it. When I missed my father, I used to cry. Mama taught me when I cry, he is sad and will cry, too. I don't want my daddy sad. I'm sure you don't want your daughter sad, too.

~ Cristiane Serruya

We have an obligation to feel guilty. The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

~ Cristiane Serruya

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

~ Cristiane Serruya

There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.

~ Cristiane Serruya

He kissed her lustfully. Mindlessly.Senselessly.

~ Cristiane Serruya

One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between who we were and who we are and who we can be. Javert represents that inescapable, shameful past that forever haunts and persues one's conscience. Javert is the man of the law, and... There are no surprises with the law. The principle of retribution is simple and monotonous, like Euclidean logic. It's closed to all alternatives and shut up against divine or human intervention... Indeed, Javert represents the merciless application of the law, the blind Justice that in the end is befuddled by hope and the possibility of redemption without punishment.

~ Cristiane Serruya

He towered over her, as intense and savage as only he could be, making her feel small and delicate in comparison, surrounded by his utter maleness. She felt trapped and she wanted to stay in his cage forever.

~ Cristiane Serruya

I believe in witches, Sophia,” his deep voice hypnotized her.“I hope you don’t burn me at the stake,” she murmured to him.“I don’t burn witches. I set them on fire,” Alistair whispered so low Sophia thought she had heard wrong.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Maybe you're starting to move on, my love. But to fully do it, you have to let the guilt go. Gabriel will always be an important part of your life. I don't even want to imagine how difficult it is to move on, but a new love always helps. I can bet you will find it in MacCraig's arms. He may be domineering and commanding, but everyone has flaws.

~ Cristiane Serruya

No matter how hard she tried to maintain her calm and collected persona, she knew it was all a ruse. All she wanted to do was curl up in a ball and hide. Hide from the world. Hide from her memories. Enter a shell and never leave. But hers would always be a broken shell, with all her cracks and holes exposed for the world to see. The veneer she had carefully painted to protect and hold herself together was peeling away.

~ Cristiane Serruya

As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.

~ Cristiane Serruya

If all of us in the world just shared love, just a little, charity foundations wouldn’t be needed.

~ Cristiane Serruya