Christina Daley > Quotes

“We're family, right? We foul up and say we're sorry and let it go.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“Don't try to be the next J.K. Rowling. Just try to be the first you.”
― Christina Daley

“Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Nothing like a horseless sleigh to spark a conversation. Mark my word, my boy. Horseless will be the way of the future!”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“There's something you need to learn about females, my boy. They are continuously in need of compliments. Otherwise, they start to suspect you of all sorts of evil”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“I've never wanted a slave. But I have always wanted a bother. I want you to be free, Coal. You can repay me by staying that way.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“There is a land I've heard of beyond the shining sea
Her borders are all boundless, her citizens all free
Where Life is not a question, where Hope is not unseen
Her roads are paved with Mercy, her King rules with Peace
And as I go this narrow way, I hardly cannot wait
Until that one day that I may stand before her gates.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“What I mean is that you aren't even supposed to know we exist. Therefore, how can you completely understand something if you're not supposed to know it's there?”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“She looked at her Name Paper again. A slave for thirteen years. A freeman for thirteen minutes.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“But this was just metal and glass once," [Carter] said. "Raw materials. No form. No purpose. But Ben saw something in his mind. And the chemicals in his brain arranged to tell his hands to craft these uninteresting materials. This [sculpture] is the result. We are looking at what he saw before he made the work. I am...speechless.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“His clothes, the way he talks, and everything else about him. I think he doesn't fence with a straight blade, if you catch me meanin'.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“Love is antithetical to human nature. Humans seek their own good. Their own survival. Their own glorification. But love seeks the good of the other, even to the detriment of the self. Even to the detriment of others.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Just because you can't read doesn't make you dumb. It just means you haven't learned yet.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“As long as you're not 'gross full,'" Raj said. "That's when you're so full that it's hard to breathe because your stomach is pushing up into your lung region.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“You are organic, aren't you? Or am I talking to a statue again?”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“By my observations, I don't think 'love' is an emotion," [Phos] said. "It doesn't make sense to me.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Art shows what's inside. And that's scary. Showing my paintings would be like...like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd and showing them what color I bleed.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“A person is not the product of her experiences, but of her choices. That's what affects the brilliance of a soul.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“Now, since you are both free, I suppose it'd be rude to call you servants. But I don't know either of you well enough to call you friends. That can only mean one thing. Relations! You are now my new sister, and you are my new brother. I've always wanted relations of my own!”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“Oh my dear now did you hear of clumsy Captain Cotton? He sailed a knot in Haley's Loch before hit the bottom!”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“Nothing paralyzes quite like fear.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant

“Anyone can learn anything. What matters is if you want to.”
― Christina Daley, Seranfyll

“Listen, I'm about to sound like the shallowest person on the face of the earth right now, but you can't control your grandma's disease. You don't make it any better or any worse...One day, your grandma isn't going to remember anything. Hopefully it's still a while away, but it's coming and there's nothing you can do about it. So, there's no use feeling bad about something you can't control. You just have to have to enjoy how things are now.”
― Christina Daley, Radiant