Jane 🏹 > Jane 🏹's Quotes

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“To think you could have been dreaming the cure for cancer," Blue said. "Look, Sargent," Ronan retorted, "I was gonna dream you some eye cream last night since clearly modern medicine's doing jack shit for you, but I nearly had my ass handed to me by a death snake from the fourth circle of dream hell, so you're welcome."
Blue was appropriately touched. "Ah, thanks, man."
"No problem, bro.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. Someone else on the ley line is dying when they should not, and so you will live when you should not.'
Gansey died.
'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'
He quietly slid from time.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's greatness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“It'll be OK. I'm ready. Blue, kiss me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us."
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
Blue said, "Okay.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Time tugged at his soul.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“What happened to your face?" Blue asked.
Adam shrugged ruefully. Either he or Ronan smelled like a parking garage. His voice was self-deprecating. "Do you think it makes me look tougher?"
What it did was make him look more fragile and dirty, somehow, like a teacup unearthed from the soil, but Blue didn't say that.
Ronan said, "It makes you look like a loser."
"Ronan," said Gansey.
"I need everyone to sit down!" shouted Maura.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Are you coming to me for wisdom?
Gansey shook his head head. ‘Courage.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Ronan replied, ‘I’m waiting for you to tell me what to do, Gansey. Tell me where to go.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“What is truth? The negation of lies? Or the statement of a fact? And if the fact is a lie, what then is the truth?”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“ In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Essence

“Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts

“But does the king serve the crown, or the crown serve the king?”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.”
― Maurice Druon, La flor de lis y el león

“We live in a world where good kings die and those foolish enough to hope for something better are killed where they stand.”
― Claire Legrand, Furyborn

“When the gods are silent, lords and kings will make themselves heard.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“How swiftly fate can make or unmake kings.”
― Nathaniel Lee, Mithridates

“I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps