Ella Moss > Ella's Quotes

“Maybe the gift of being human is that we do not give up—even when all hope is lost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Sometimes you just have to survive to fight another day.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Life is full of pain', I had told Akos, trying to draw him back from depression. 'Your capacity for bearing it is greater than you believe.' And I had been right.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance. I would never take it for granted again.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“It wasn't pretending I wouldn't get knocked down that protected me, but the knowledge that I would get back up as many times as I had to.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“It was ridiculous.
But so was much of the galaxy.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“There's poetry in it, in that poetry can be raw, and cruel, and strange, like this.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“They were both people who carried every scrap of everything around, but maybe they could help each other set things down, piece by piece.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“I tipped my chin up and kissed him, gently. He responded by wrapping an arm across my back and lifting me into him, strong and warm and certain.
It took a while for us to break apart.
“We pass through the currentstream today,” I said. “Will you come with me?”
“In case you hadn’t noticed,” he said, “I’ll pretty much go with you anywhere.”
He tapped my nose with a gray-stained finger, leaving a mark that even I could see out of the corner of my eye.
“Did you just stain my nose right before I have to go out in public?”
He grinned, and nodded.
“I hate you,” I said.
“And I love you,” he replied.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“Sitting at his kitchen table--the kitchen table where he had spread his homework as a kid to work before dinner, where he had climbed up to dust the burnstones with red hushflower powder, where he had learned to chop and slice and crush ingredients for the painkiller--was Cyra.
Her thick, wavy hair piled on one side of her head, the other glinting silver.
Her arm wrapped in armor.
Her eyes dark as space.
“Hello,” she said to him in Thuvhesit.
“Hello,” he replied in Shotet.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“We see--
Them.
Older. The silverskin shining on one side of her head. His gray eyes crinkled at the corners as he looks at her.
They stand in a crowd beneath a mammoth ship. It towers, in patchwork metals, over the other ships on the loading bay. A new sojourn ship.
He takes her hand. They walk toward the ship together.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“I paused. I was tempted to call Akos a friend, but it seemed too simple for what he had been to me, too small a word.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

“When the will to live failed, the body still fought.”
― Veronica Roth, The Fates Divide

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

“I was born knowing how to do three things - how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“A person alone could be controlled, but a person loved by others would always be under their protection.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“When we can't change the past, the only thing left is to move forward.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“A feather fallen from a wing is not lost, Gil had told her, but free.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Scars are tallies of the battles you’ve survived.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“You are the strongest person I’ve ever known, Castor Achilleos, and it wasn’t because of how fast you ran or how hard you hit. It was because even when you got knocked flat on your back, you fought your way back up. You have to do it again now. Whatever you’re feeling, you have to leave it on the mat and get back up.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“It wasn't that anger was inherently good or bad. It could lend power and drive and focus, but the longer it lived inside you unchecked, the more poisonous it became.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

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

“Building a new life, a better life, will keep you looking forward, until, one day, you'll find you're no longer tempted to keep turning back toward everything you've lost.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won’t find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings—I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman