Emily > Emily's Quotes

“You could only convince yourself something was prey until it turned around and showed you it’s teeth.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Sometimes, the braver thing is to accept help when you’ve been made to believe you shouldn’t need it.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“If we’re wrong about your whole immortality and somehow they take you, wait for me at the dark river. I’ll bring you home.”

“Hades himself would turn me back at the gates knowing you’re coming and that I’d fight like hell to meet you halfway.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“You know, some people get so used to looking out at life from the edge of their cage that they stop seeing the bars. I’ve never forgotten them, I’ve just learned how to live inside on my own terms.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“I cannot fix the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner.”

“A man who had felt less, might.”
― Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice

“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or any person who is wholly unconnected with me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of goodwill which could not be overlooked. It was a gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“He knew exactly what he intended to leave behind when he was gone.

Damage.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I’ve been shot!" He had not been shot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Everyone mourns the first blossom.
Who will grieve the rest who fall?”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“But if you loved a thing, the work was never done”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“We hope or we falter.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I’m not supposed to let you in,” Jesper said. Brekker seemed unperturbed. “Why not?” “Because every time I do, you ask me to break the law.” A voice from behind Jesper said, “The problem isn’t that he asks, it’s that you always say yes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Why does it matter?” asked Nikolai.
“Because unlike Kaz, I have a conscience.”
“I have a conscience,” said Kaz. “It just knows when to keep its mouth shut.”
Jesper snorted. “If you have a conscience, it’s gagged and tied to a chair somewhere.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I will always seek to make it summer for you.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I will march with you in times of war. I will rest with you in times of peace. I will forever be the weapon in your hand, the fighter at you side, and the friend who awaits your return. I have seen your face in the making at the heart of the world and there is no one more beloved, Genya Safin, brave and unbreakable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I have a gift for order and a taste for chaos.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Kaz is … I don’t know, he’s like nobody else I’ve ever known. He surprises me.”
“Yes. Like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer.”
Jesper barked a laugh. “Just like that.”
“So what are we doing here?”
Jesper turned back to the sea, feeling his cheeks heat. “Hoping for honey, I guess. And praying not to get stung.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“My ghost won't associate with your ghost," Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You can be just friends with people, you know," Orla said. "I think it's crazy how you're in love with all those raven boys."

Orla wasn't wrong, of course. But what she didn't realize about Blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. She was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, that wasn't blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she'd had this kind, she didn't want the other.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a brilliant idea, conceived and executed by a clever young woman, must be claimed by a man.”
― Tirzah Price, Pride and Premeditation

“If those in positions of power don't say to each other, 'Something is wrong and we must right it,' then who will do so?”
― Tirzah Price, Pride and Premeditation

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“I’m a cynic. And a cynic is a romantic who’s too scared to hope.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story