Anastasia > Anastasia's Quotes

“I always tell the truth, Stella replies. Although I sometimes confuse the facts.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“They think I'm too old to cause trouble.
Old age is a powerful disguise.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“It was beautiful, in its own terrible way.
So many monsters are.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“As long as there was life in the sea, there would be teeth.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Humanity has feared the dark since time immemorial, and yet humanity has never experienced the dark, because it wasn't until recently - the age of cunning hands and clever machines - that the dark had been anything more than a whispering legend, a rumor of a nightmare.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Knowledge that can be imparted loudly and with passion always lasts longer than knowledge that has to be whispered.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“This was where darkness went to live forever, growing deeper and more powerful as the eons passed it by.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Whistling past the graveyard is a time-honored tradition. Keeps us from screaming.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“What you have to understand about the mermaid legend is that it's universal. No matter where you go, the mermaids got there first. Even inland, if there's a big enough lake, I guarantee you there's a local community with a story about women in the water with beautiful voices who lure men to their deaths.

Where there's water, we find mermaids. Maybe it's time we started asking ourselves exactly why that is.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Memories are precious ... they help tell us who we are.”
― Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan

“Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“She told herself who she was. Duchess Day Radley. Outlaw.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“Do I think they found mermaids? Yes. Of course I do. And I think the mermaids ate them all.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“He has a theory: When we travel, we actually take three trips. There’s the first trip of preparation and anticipation, packing and daydreaming. There’s the trip you’re actually on. And then, there’s the trip you remember. “The key is to try to keep all three as separate as possible,” he says. “The key is to be present wherever you are right now.” This advice, more than any, stays with me.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home.”
― Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep

“Forgiveness is a refusal to armor your own heart—a refusal to live in a constricted heart,” he said, seemingly as much to himself as to me. “Living with that openness means feeling pain. It’s not pretty, but the alternative is feeling nothing at all.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“What if I stopped thinking of pain as something that needs to be numbed, fixed, dodged, and protected against? What if I tried to honor its presence in my body, to welcome it into the present?”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“They taught me that, when life brings you to the floor, there is a choice: You can allow the worst thing that’s ever happened to you to hijack your remaining days, or you can claw your way back into motion.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“Hope is secular. And life is fragile. And sometimes we hold on too tight, even though we know it’ll break.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“The power of story is to heal and to sustain. And if we are brave enough to tell our own story, we realize we're not alone, again and again.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“Ah but Art never fails anyone, magic and medicine may certainly fail, but never Art.”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own insignificance no longer terrifies me as it once did, but comforts me, makes me feel a part, however tiny, of the whole complete and perfect universe. . . and when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make, absorbed by the the sandy soil, dried instantly by the constant prairie wind . . .”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

“The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We’re dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can’t change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they’ll take it back.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“The path to addiction is straight and well paved;”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“That fairy tale that all humans are equal before the law and in the eyes of God is a lie, Camilo. I hope you don’t buy into it. Neither the law nor God treats everyone the same.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“It’s hard to make money working; and the harder the work, the worse the pay. It takes effort not to lose everything and end up on the street. It’s easy, on the other hand, to get rich without producing anything, moving money from one place to another, speculating, taking advantage of stock opportunities, investing in the hard work of others.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta

“The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.”
― Isabel Allende, Violeta