Thalia S. A. > Thalia's Quotes

“Happiness is a stack of books.”
― Thalia S. A.

“When I say to a parent, 'read to a child,' I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”
― - Mem Fox

“Friends don’t lie,”
― Sophie Cleverly, The Curse in the Candlelight

“Let your inner DORK shine through.”
― Rachel Renée Russell, Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

“Sweetie, when life presents challenges, you can be either a CHICKEN or a CHAMPION. The choice is YOURS!”
― Rachel Renée Russell, Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

“In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem.
Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea.
Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit.
Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.”
― David Walliams, Mr Stink

“No detective ever solved a mystery without the help of a hot jam doughnut.”
― Andy Griffiths, The 52-Storey Treehouse: The Treehouse Books 05

“If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether.
But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking.”
― Brit Trogen , Margaret and the Moth Tree

“There’s nothing that can’t be solved with a pot of tea, a slice of cake, and a very dear friend.”
― Andy Sagar, Yesterday Crumb and the Storm in a Teacup

“You know, when someone has been crying, something gets left in the air. It's not something you can see or smell, or feel. Or draw. But it's there.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“There is an Arabic proverb that says:
She makes you feel
like a loaf of freshly baked bread.

It is said about
the nicest
kindest
people.
The type of people
who help you
rise.”
― Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur