Julia Constantine > Julia's Quotes

“Sometimes the objects we hold dear give away who we are even more than the people we love.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“In consiliis nostris fatum nostrum est, the words read. “In our choices lie our fate.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Libraries don't keep secrets; they reveal them.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Her mother said fairy tales didn't have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about--Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“The raindrops were tears too. The whole world was crying.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Her mother said fairy tales didn’t have anything to do with the world, but Ofelia knew better. They had taught her everything about it.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“The only piece of home Ofelia had been able to take with her were some of her books. She closed her fingers firmly around the one on her lap, caressing the cover. When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Evil seldom takes shape immediately. It is often little more than a whisper at first. A glance. A betrayal. But then it grows and takes root, still invisible, unnoticed. Only fairy tales give evil a proper shape. The big bad wolves, the evil kings, the demons, and devils . . .”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“When she finally wrapped her arms around the girl, the softness stirring in her heart frightened her. It was dangerous to be soft in this world.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.”
― Stephen King, It

“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.”
― Stephen King, The Mist