Chloe > Chloe's Quotes

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“But a life without art, without wonder, without beautiful things—she would go mad. She has gone mad.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“My girl, some boats are for the river and some are for the ocean”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Descartes was wrong, you know, when he said, 'To live well, you must live unseen.' To live well, you must learn to see yourself first. Do you understand what I'm saying?”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“If you’re the sickness, I suppose you can’t also be the cure.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If fate is a bunch of strings, then I'll carry scissors. My choices are my own. I'll make them as I please.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Be the light that makes someone's lantern shine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I'm delirious. Spots are crawling before my eyes."
"Those are spiders.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Taylor Swift’s early albums that summer, and there was this one song”
― K.L. Walther, The Summer of Broken Rules

“Rapunzel, Rapunzel!” I whisper-yelled. “Get your ass down here!”
― K.L. Walther, The Summer of Broken Rules

“I sneak a peek at his Spotify playlist, half certain it’ll be all just white noise or classic orchestral music, only to find Taylor Swift’s latest album playing instead.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“There are no monsters. Only people.”
― Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep

“Why are some guys so fucked up?’

‘It’s a kind of sickness, I think. Or a defect of the soul.”
― Ellie Marney, None Shall Sleep

“There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“deadyly and graceful, poised and ruthless. Quiet adn cunning. A queen offers her hand to be kissed, and can form it into a fist while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?' Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question in to something like a compliment.

'No,' I say, glad to be annoyed back in to the present. 'Tell me.'

'I cannot,' he says, then frowns.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“We love imperfect people. We can love them and not condone their actions and beliefs.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Inaction is a powerful choice”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter