Justyna > Justyna's Quotes

“For the record, while it's very charming that you keep trying to protect me, I would like to remind you that I actually know how to defend myself."
He grimaced. "I know. It's just... instinct."
"Well, stop it."
He held his hands up. "Won't happen again." He hesitated. I mean, unless I'm pretty sure you're about to die, then I'm absolutely going to rescue you, whether you like it or not.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Everyone has a nightmare.” He pressed his forehead against hers. “Maybe I want you to be mine.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“One cannot be brave who has no fear.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“How can we expect people to change if we don't give them the chance to?”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Some people were always meant to be heroes.
Just like some people were always meant to be villains.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“Once we have total power, what's to keep us from becoming villains ourselves?”
― Marissa Meyer, Archenemies

“That’s human nature, isn’t it? People want to put someone on a pedestal. Maybe it gives them something to dream about.”
― Marissa Meyer, Archenemies

“Everyone has a nightmare, I guess I'm yours.”
― Marissa Meyer, Supernova

“All revolutions come with death. Some must die so that others might have life. It is a tragedy, but it is also a truth.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“We both know the world would be better off without heroes. Without villains. Without any of us, getting in the way of normal, happy people and their normal, happy lives.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“There is no I in hero.”
― Marissa Meyer, Archenemies

“Hope called themselves the Renegades.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“Sometimes the weak must be sacrificed so that the strong may flourish.”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I think this is the ugliest place I’ve ever seen. Not just here. The whole state.” I hear my parents telling me not to be negative, which is funny because I’ve always been the happy one. It’s Eleanor who was moody. “I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can’t all think it’s ugly.” He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that’s there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I like writing, but I like a lot of things. Maybe out of those things, I'm best at writing. Maybe it's what I like best of all. Maybe it's where I've always felt most at home. Or maybe the writing part of me is over. Maybe there's something else I'm supposed to do instead. I don't know.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I will always be here, in the offerings and people I left behind.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“You saved my life. Why couldn't I save yours?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“As he talks, I lie back against the ground, the blanket wrapped around me, and say to the sky, "May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul, You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Sometimes things feel true to us, even if they're not.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Positive ones go on the wall, negative on the floor over there. He points to this heap of paper. It's important to get those down but they don't need to stick around after you do”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I
Am
In
Pieces”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Not here. Not now”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles