Eirys Wallace > Eirys's Quotes

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We all have souls of different ages”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde

“He's more like me, I think: burdened with the realization that what goes on in his mind is somehow different from what goes on in everyone else's. Even those closest to us.
And how you can't think about that for too long, because that thought - the truth of our isolation - is too much to bear.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I honestly can't remember much else about those years except a certain mood that permeated most of them, a melancholy feeling that I associate with watching 'The Wonderful World of Disney' on Sunday nights. Sunday was a sad day - early to bed, school the next morning, I was constantly worried my homework was wrong - but as I watched the fireworks go off in the night sky, over the floodlit castles of Disneyland, I was consumed by a more general sense of dread, of imprisonment within the dreary round of school and home: circumstances which, to me at least, presented sound empirical argument for gloom.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, 'is where the tragedy is.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Per aspera ad astra. I’d heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns, to the stars.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We had, like seven siblings, spent so much time together that we had seen the best and worst of one another and were unimpressed by either.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“But in Shakespeare's world, passion is irresistible, not embarrassing.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Hatred is the sincerest form of flattery.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Mirror magic is all about reflection and perception. A lie isn’t a lie until someone believes it. It doesn’t matter how charming you are if there’s no one to charm.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“We all have spaces we keep.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Suffocating beneath a pile of books seems an appropriate way to go for a research assistant.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“What did the dead have to fear?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Before you walked into a deal, you had to know if you would walk out.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed,”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Didn't someone say love is a shared delusion?"
"Cynical, Darlington. Doesn't suit you at all." "Call it magic if you prefer. Two people reciting the same spell.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“A lie isn’t a lie until someone believes it. It doesn’t matter how charming you are if there’s no one to charm.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I didn’t hurt her. I loved her.” Like those things couldn’t go hand in hand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“This is where you belong. This is where you were meant to bloom. [...] Not every flower belongs in every garden.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House