Miranda Dees > Miranda's Quotes

“We’re a book club,” Maryellen said. “What are we supposed to do? Read him to death? Use strong language?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one. But if you’re happy just doing what you’re told and reading what other people think you should read, then don’t let me stop you. I just find it sad.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“one thing I learned from all these books: it pays to be paranoid.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“I want the world to stop demanding gratuitous details in exchange for empathy. Entertainment in exchange for understanding. But I am not in charge of the world. I am not even in charge of my own story, because, as I am so fond of saying, there is no such thing as a straight line through trauma.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“Coping takes a fuck-ton more effort and energy than thriving ever will.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“I wish I were deadpan. It's a very effective comic device. It's like the better-natured and kinder-hearted cousin of sarcasm.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“I got through it. Of course I did. Hello. But I didn’t emerge from the experience as a person who was wholly committed to the living of life.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“The power of a joke is not in the writing. It is how you wrap your voice around it.”
― Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“Anger’s solid, it has weight. You can beat your fists against it. Pity’s a fog to become lost within.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it?”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“...bars can't build better men and misery can only break what goodness remains.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“There is no “right” way to be. I am flawed and imperfect, but am uniquely me. I don’t fit in and probably never will. And I don’t have to try to anymore. That other person was a lie. And let’s face it, normal is boring. We all have something to offer the world in some way, but by not being our authentic selves, we are robbing the world of something different, something special.”
― Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

“I mean, I was full on ready to be arrested; you know, I’d just put on a little lipstick, mug shot ready.”
― Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“We’re all just trying to be comfortable, and well fed, and unafraid.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“If we want change, or good fortune, or solace, we have to create it for ourselves.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“You've called your carelessness love and made a virtue of irresponsibility.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“But storytelling always changes time. At least it does in my world.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel