Iris Knight > Iris's Quotes

“Ik hou van jou, Adam.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“The gesture of possessiveness, of staking his claim, doesn’t escape me, but I don’t dwell on it much either, because he’s not doing it to me. He’s doing it to his wife. As long as I don’t consider myself his wife and can separate reality from the role I’m playing, everything will be fine. And most importantly, I’ll survive.”
― Rina Kent, Vow of Deception

“One has to dare if one wants to get anywhere,' said Mrs. Bantry.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

“We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“If you get any more perfect, I’m going to believe you were made just for me.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“Calm water doesn’t need more water—you need wind to move your sail.”
― Sophie Lark, Brutal Prince

“Every religion is a one-way relationship.”
― Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

“We only think of the bad things that happen, rather than those that, through fortune, pass us by.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don’t trust wolves. Don’t steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don’t trust people who want to share their food with you; don’t eat their shiny red apples, not their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don’t break a promise.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“That thing looks like H. P. Lovecraft’s panic attack.”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

“I know this shit is fucked up, so don’t bother writing to tell me I’m twisted in the head. ;)      ”
― S.T. Abby, The Risk

“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Acceleration is pressing his eyeballs out of their right shape. High tech astigmatism.”
― James S.A. Corey, Drive

“There’s no harm in taking a peek.”
― R.L. Stine , Stay Out of the Basement

“A serial killer sharing a house with a homicide detective and a FBI agent. Life doesn’t get more complicated than this.”
― S.T. Abby, Sidetracked

“I always fixed beef for your father. But he only wanted pie.”
― R.L. Stine, Monster Blood

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. There’s not much I can do about it. Trust me. It doesn’t go away. It’s there whether I like it or not. It’s there when I eat. When I go to bed. It’s there when I sleep. It’s there when I wake up. It’s always there. Always.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“This wasn't about boys and girls and love and attraction, this was about a human soul needing to feel seen.”
― Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Greg was very interested in cameras. He had an inexpensive automatic camera, which took okay snapshots. But he was saving his allowance in hopes of buying a really good camera with a lot of lenses.
He loved looking at camera magazines, studying the different models, picking out the ones he wanted to buy.”
― R.L. Stine, Say Cheese and Die!

“Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:

"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.
2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.
3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.
4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.
5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound.
8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic.
9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Cara’s dad is giving you a lift back. If you get home before Mum and I are back from the cinema, will you let the dog out for a wee?”
― Holly Jackson, Kill Joy

“From now on she was going to take the time to pause in her pursuit of happiness and success and just be happy.”
― Maggie Knox, The Holiday Swap

“My Google search history alone was probably enough to put me on a government watch list. I wrote suspense novels about murders like this. I’d searched every possible way to kill someone. With every conceivable kind of weapon.”
― Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

“Charlotte, listen to me. You are a smart, beautiful, confident woman. You don’t need me to tell you what you want. I want to hear it from you. You deserve pleasure just as much as I do, and trust me, I want nothing more than to hear you utter the dirtiest words, and then I want to do whatever it is you say. So say it.”
― Sara Cate, Praise

“We only need to be one person.
We only need to feel one existence.
We don't have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Yes, my dear child, monsters are real. I happen to have one hanging in my basement.”
― Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist

“To defeat a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul. —Lana Myers”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel