Abbie Cunningham > Abbie's Quotes

“You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.”
― William Goldman

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“Death is the one thing certain in human life. Why does it still come as a surprise when it happens?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“If you want me obedient, prince, kill me and carry my corpse.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“That was life, wasn't it? A collection of moments, a menagerie of people. Everyone stranded everywhere, always.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“People suck, but sometimes, they should just drown in their own suckage without our help.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“gods are nothing without fools to believe in them.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“I wipe the crumbs from my lips, desperate to hide the fact that I’ve eaten my way through half the festival.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“She smiles. A beautiful smile. With it, I glimpse the sun. When she turns, I long for that glimpse again, the warmth it spread through my bones.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Maybe the only difference between a monster and a hero was the colour of a soldier's uniform”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“You are not weak for grieving. For feeling anything.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Goddess above, Hal, they're labeled. It's the one that says antidote for Hal on it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“It takes incredible strength to be kind in this world. To endure suffering instead of further it.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night

“Hal looked ar her as if she were the most insufferable person he'd ever met.
It filled her with an indescribable delight, fizzy and bright, like sunshine marbling the ocean.”
― Allison Saft, Down Comes the Night