Lea D'Angelo > Lea's Quotes

“Is that what you want? To be the official Keeper of all the Lost Cities’ secrets?”
― Shannon Messenger, Stellarlune

“No, I mean it. You balance each other. He helps you lighten up, and you help him focus. He boosts your confidence, and you keep his ego in check. You both dive headfirst into danger, but somehow you’re able to help each other play it a little smarter. And you both act more like yourselves when you’re together.”
― Shannon Messenger, Stellarlune

“Time is a funny thing. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. But then it passes on to someone else. You’ll do great things with it. Wonderful, incredible things. I’m sorry I won’t be able to see them. But don’t let that stop you from living them. Dream. Fight. Love. Take risks. Allow yourself to be happy.”
― Shannon Messenger, Lodestar

“We're meant to be part of a we. Something bigger, something outside of ourselves.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“I think there are some things we shouldn’t accept. And living sick is one of those things.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I believe, Stevie, that human beings...we're oriented toward health. Meaning, your body wants to heal. Your mind wants to heal. If you can get to a place where you let your mind and body do what they want to do, you will start to move toward health.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“I think that maybe for some people, family is just the people you’re standing next to when awful things happen.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“Every person should be able to choose her own particular brand of suffering.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Because our family doesn't decide who we are. WE decide who we are. Believe me, it drives my parents crazy. And sometimes, that's the only thought that gets me through the day.”
― Shannon Messenger, Everblaze

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I would rather be punished for making the right decision than live with the guilt of making the wrong one for the rest of my life.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You'd be surprised at how powerful hope can be.”
― Shannon Messenger, Exile

“There’s no reason to worry.”
― Shannon Messenger, Keeper of the Lost Cities

“Death is not an exact science, which is irritating for those of us who appreciate precision.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“The girl in the mirror was too much and not enough.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“Infinite possibilities. And none of them matter.
What matters is here and now.”
― Shannon Messenger, Let the Sky Fall

“We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.”
― Meg Haston, Paperweight

“You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and light.”
― Francisco X. Stork, The Memory of Light

“There is pain in the body or the heart or the soul or the mind or all of the above. Body pain is obvious. Heart pain is the pain that comes from others, when they love you too much or not enough or the wrong way. Soul pain comes from feel your life is one big waste. Mind pain is what I can't figure out. It's like when you throw body, heart, and soul pain into a blender, then you add a cup of disgust at all that you are, at all that you've become, at all that you will ever be.”
― Francisco X. Stork, The Memory of Light

“There's two of me. The person I carry around like a dead carcass inside of me and the one I show to others.”
― Francisco X. Stork, The Memory of Light

“But all I can feel right now is that someone turned on a light just long enough for me to see what I could never have, so that it would hurt me even more than if I had never seen it.”
― Francisco X. Stork, The Memory of Light

“Can you hope for hope?”
― Francisco X. Stork, The Memory of Light

“It's hard to accept that depression is an illness, that moping around from day to day with no will for so many years is not my fault.”
― Francisco X. Stork, The Memory of Light