Caitlin > Caitlin's Quotes

“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone

“He’d accepted long ago that some people, no matter how good their heart was or how much love they had to give, would always be alone. It was their lot in life, and Linus had figured out, at the age of twenty-seven, that it seemed to be that way for him.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“We get trapped in our own little bubbles, and even though the world is a wide and mysterious place, our bubbles keep us safe from that. To our detriment.” She sighed. “But it’s so easy because there’s something soothing about routine. Day in and day out, it’s always the same. When we’re shaken from that, when that bubble bursts, it can be hard to understand all that we’ve missed.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“I was just thinking that you don’t have to forget who you were … because that’s what brought you here.”
― Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Love's about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she's simply the best person you've ever known.”
― Julia Quinn, The Viscount Who Loved Me

“Finding your favourite character was discovering a soul made of words that spoke to your own”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“In real life, people let you go. That was why people longed for the love from stories, love that felt more real than real love.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“People say, I’ll give anything. The universe listens. But the universe doesn’t listen when you say, Wait, not that.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“Let me be your favorite story. Let me be the greatest story you ever heard.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Long Live Evil

“No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“There comes a time when all other voices must be blocked from your mind, a time when you must turn inward and ask yourself who you are, what you want, and how you can achieve those goals.”
― Lynn Buchanan, The Dollmakers

“Remember: it's only when we stop trying that we fail.”
― Lynn Buchanan, The Dollmakers

“Fear is a powerful motivator, but so is love.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance

“History was built by thousands of women who thought they were just housewives or just secretaries or just seamstresses until the day they got fed up and decided to fight back.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance

“Not everyone is willing or able to take on the world in a great big fight. It doesn't make them weak or wrong.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, Undercover Bromance