Emma ^ - ^ > Emma ^ - ^'s Quotes

“Maybe that was the trick to life: to notice all the tiny moments in the day when everything else fell away and, for a split second, or maybe even a few seconds, you had no worries, only pleasure, only appreciation of what was right in front of you. Transcendental meditation, maybe, but with hot dogs and the knowledge that everything would change, the good and the bad, and so you might as well appreciate the good.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“It's okay to change," I interrupted, "but it's not okay to hide, to bury parts of ourselves.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“Healing by way of vengeance ... no such thing existed; it never had. Hurting others had only injured me further.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“We’re all a little broken, Briana. We are a mosaic. We’re made up of all those we’ve met and all the things we’ve been through. There are parts of us that are colorful and dark and jagged and beautiful. And I love every piece of you. Even the ones you wish didn’t exist.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“that the hardest truths never rest on the surface. They must be dredged up, held to the light and rinsed clean.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“Grace costs you nothing”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“When you don't care, everything's on your terms. They can take it or leave it. It doesn't matter to you, so ask for whatever the hell you want.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“To me, the allure of history lay in the minutiae of life long ago, the untold secrets of ordinary people.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“One doesn’t need magic if one knows enough stories.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“Per te aspetterei per sempre, amore mio.”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath

“Abby Rivers and Gretchen Lang were best friends, on and off, for seventy-five years, and there aren’t many people who can say that. They weren’t perfect. They didn’t always get along. They screwed up. They acted like assholes. They fought, they fell out, they patched things up, they drove each other crazy, and they didn’t make it to Halley’s Comet. But they tried.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic. How the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“The way you spend your days is the way you spend your life.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“In some Native languages the term for plants translates to “those who take care of us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“Come, little human.” He gestured his hand out to present more of his left arm for her. “Let me melt your heart.”
― Opal Reyne, A Soul to Keep

“Humans. For the most part, you are dull and blundering. But occasionally, you can be remarkably bright creatures.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People