Kay > Kay's Quotes

“Grief can be so bad you can’t breathe, but that’s what it means to be human. We lose, we suffer, but we have to keep breathing.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Be good, my archer boy. Come back to me.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“That’s right,” said Kit. He waved from the next booth. “I forgot my weapons. But I do have this fork.” He wiggled it. “You are so forked,” he said to Barnabas.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Sometimes you need to guard people against the things they want, as well as the things they fear.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“You think you can’t survive without Livvy, but you can. We will go through it together.” Kit’s face was cold; he
realized he was crying. “I love you, Ty. I love you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Don’t remain silent about what you want, or you may never get it.”
“You are very wise,” Kieran said gravely.
“Well,” said Dru. “I actually saw that on a mug.”
“Mugs in this world are very wise.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“We are all guilty. And therefore we will all vote, as a reminder that every voice counts, and when you choose not to use your voice, you are letting yourself be silenced.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, the sadness can depart once we see the truth."

"What's the truth?" Annie asked.

"That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you." The old woman smiled. "And the world is so full of need.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“Secrets. We think by keeping them, we're controlling things, but all the while, they're controlling us.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

“I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“Never live your life according to the idiots' rules. Because they'll drag you down to their level, they'll win, and you'll have a damned awful time in the process.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“WARNING: UNHAPPY ENDING! she wrote. If more bookshop owners had taken the responsibility to hang warning signs, her life would have been much easier. Cigarette packets came with warnings, so why not tragic books? There was wording on bottles of beer warning against drinking and driving, but not a single word about the consequences of reading books without tissues to hand.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“It was funny, she thought, how often we stuck to the safe path in life, pulling on blinders and keeping our eyes to the ground, doing our best not to look at the fantastic view. Without seeing the heights we had reached, the opportunities actually awaiting us out there; without realizing we should just jump and fly, at least for a moment.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“In books, people were charming and friendly, and life followed certain set patterns. If a person dreamed of doing something, then you could be almost certain that, by the end of the book, they would almost certainly be doing that very thing. And they would find someone to do it with. In the real world, you could be almost certain that person would end up doing absolutely anything other than what they had dreamed of. “They’re”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“A complete waste of time - doubting yourself. If you make the slightest mistake, someone else is sure to let you know about it.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Hardships make or break people.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Our lives are the only real thing we have, our only coin. We get to buy what we want with them.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Emotions are at the center of a person’s being. But what exists in the center of the world are not emotions. Nothing exists in the center of the world……so don’t chase emotions, Akutagawa. Don’t chase the beast known as yourself. Stand on your two legs, don’t cling to somebody else, stay calm and tough. If you don’t, you won’t survive.”
― Kafka Asagiri