Rachel Klein Quotes

To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.
Rachel Klein
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
Rachel Klein
It's true that I never wanted to grow up. But how important was it really — to have decided to be human?
Rachel Klein
I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.
Rachel Klein
If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.
Rachel Klein
You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.
Rachel Klein
Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?
Rachel Klein
I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
Rachel Klein
You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.
Rachel Klein
She goes where she pleases. She appears unhoped for, uncalled for. She moves through doors and walls and windows. Her thoughts move through minds. She enters dreams. She vanishes and is still there. She knows the future and sees through flesh. She is not afraid of anything.
Rachel Klein
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
Rachel Klein
Girls are always saying things like, “I’m so unhappy that I’m going to overdose on aspirin,” but they’d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.
Rachel Klein
.. the truth is what you can't see but are certain of anyway.
Rachel Klein