Chanel > Chanel's Quotes

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“That's the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Through love, all is possible.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Memento Mori. Remember that you will die.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“You were healing. You’re still healing. You’ll maybe always be healing. And that’s OK. It’ll just be part of what makes you you.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch

“That’s the way with old friends. You understand each other, even when there’s not enough words out there for everything that should be said.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch

“If you're holding someone close enough, you can be the shoulder and the crier.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Switch

“But I wasn't listening. I wasn't stopping. Because we were already running away again, me and my imagination.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“The last-page ache. The deep breath in after you’ve set the book aside.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“By wanting something as vast and untamable as the ocean, I had revealed my own desire to experience the fullness of life.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

“Much as we seek power in every corner of our lives, it's always already in us. It's impossible to be powerless. If you recognized it, you yourself are power. Life is power.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

“And life reminds me, again and again: You have to dismantle the old to make the space for something new.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

“It’s not about where you came from. What kind of shit might have happened to you in the past. It’s about who you are. What you do with the opportunities life presents to you.”
― Lucy Foley, The Paris Apartment

“My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“The fight isn't over until you win.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Because even if I sometimes use the word abuse to describe certain things that were done to me, in someone else’s mouth the word turns ugly and absolute. It swallows up everything that happened.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Everyone likes tall, broody, sullen hunks with genius IQs.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury