Em > Em's Quotes

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“What reason would you have to be afraid of Warner? He’s such a nice guy. Loves children. Big talker. Oh, and bonus: He no longer murders people professionally. No, now
murdering people is just a fulfilling hobby.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Imagine Me

“Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in love with her? I think Adam's in love with her. Kenji's not in love with her, though. I already asked him."
Warner blinks at him.
"Well?" James asks.
"Well what?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"Are you in love with her?"
"What?" James blushes. "No. She's like a million years older than me."
"Would anyone else like to take over this conversation?" Warner asks, looking around the group.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I am going to MURDER YOU—”
“No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don’t like to kill people, remember? You’re against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows—”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“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

“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Good, because if you said something to my
dad, I would tell him how cheesy you are with your pickup lines.” Theo mockingly presses his palms to his cheeks. “We finally reached the beach, my little whale.”

I glare at him. “That’s not at all how it went.”

Theo points across the kitchen. “Look! It’s sand—we’ve reached land!”

“Stop.”

“Lily, what the heck, our boat is wrecked!”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It is my wish for you to be my fish”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“It would be shame," Jameson commented, "if we were related.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Your grandfather was a piece of work,” I told Xander. He picked up a fourth scone. “I agree. In his honor, I eat this scone.” He did just that.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I always wonder about raindrops.

I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.

I am a raindrop.

My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me..”
― Colleen Hoover

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds.

I can shoot a hundred numbers through the chest and watch them bleed decimal points in the palm of my hand. I can rip the numbers off a clock and watch the hour hand tick tick tick its final tock just before I fall asleep. I can suffocate seconds just by holding my breath. I've been murdering minutes for hours and no one seems to mind.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Where are you going?” I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn’t just walk away. “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Thea isn't a girl. She's a whirlwind wrapped in a hurricane wrapped in steel.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I'm a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I'm no stranger to being hated”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life”
― Jane austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Heads, I kiss you. Tails, you kiss me. And either way, it means something.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius."
She is one of us. We protect her.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy

“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