Marlee > Marlee's Quotes

“We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“If yes is no and once is never, then how many sides does a triangle have?”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“As awful as it sounds, money is power, and power is magnetic.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I will always protect you" he told me, his jaw tight, his eyes shadowed. "You deserve to feel safe in your own home. And I'll help you with the foundation. I'll teach you what you need to know to take this life like you were born to it. But this...us..." He swallowed. "It can't happen, Avery. I've seen the way Jamerson looks at you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Better the devil you do know than the devil you don't”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“He gently traced the line of my jaw. “I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again. You have my word.” He thought he could protect me. He wanted to. He was touching me, and all I wanted was to let him. Let him protect me. Let him touch me.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I may not shine as brightly as my friend Happiness, but my flame is harder to extinguish.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig

“Losing is part of living. But some of us live even though we're lost. That's what love does.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Christmas Pig

“Books themselves are freedom. Freedom to think, to believe, to dream.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that?” I pressed my lips together, then looked up at her. "You ban their books”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“For who are we all, if not the product of who we love, what we know, and every wonderful word that we have read?”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

“Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, and plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying things. Stories are things to be loved and respected at the same time; never underestimate the power of them.”
― Anna James, The Bookwanderers

“So nowadays I try to make a little more space for the impossible to happen.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“Are the things in your imagination less real than the things in front of you? Is this rose more real than you? Do the books you've read mean less to you because they haven't really happened to you? Do daydreams at midday or nightdreams at midnight mean nothing?”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“Some people see a bookshop as an archive, or a shrine, or even a time machine. But I think a bookshop is like a map of the world. There are infinite paths you can take through it and none of them are right or wrong. Here in a bookshop we give readers landmarks to help them find their way, but every reader has to learn to set their own compass.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“Tilly sometimes felt like there had been a lesson where friendship had been explained, but she’d been out sick and had never quite been able to catch up.”
― Anna James, The Bookwanderers

“Friends should bring out the best in you, not be the same as you. I’m sure you’re someone’s perfect fit.”
― Anna James, The Bookwanderers

“I'm not sure best friends are a one-size-fits-all sort of situation, Tilly,' Grandad said carefully. 'Sometimes a person who becomes a friend is the least likely person you'd expect. friends should bring out the best in you, not be the same as you. I'm sure you're someone's perfect fit.”
― Anna James, Pages & Co.: The Bookwanderers

“bookshop is like a map of the world.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Bookwanderers

“No one is too old for a story before bed,”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“There are no rules for reading, after all.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Do not wait too long for something special to present itself. Go out and find it.”
― Anna James, The Lost Fairy Tales

“Christmas at the bookshop is the best.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Find your own path! Don’t just blindly follow the one laid out in front of you.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“Magic”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Lost Fairy Tales

“But the world would be in a lot of problems if it ran out of imagination,”
― Anna James, The Map of Stories

“I have seen the same problems again and again, and reading is nothing but a merry distraction from it. A way to escape problems and cares, ay, but not a way to solve them. I wish it were otherwise.”
― Anna James, Tilly and the Map of Stories