books > books's Quotes

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff up in my head and then get sad about it. I like to sleep and I like to blog. I am going to die someday.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“You look like you're having a midlife crisis."
"It's not a midlife crisis. It's just a life crisis.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“to err is human”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Lying

“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

“You were born to live, you were born to shine but most of all you were born to burn bright.”
― Danielle Jawando, And The Stars Were Burning Brightly

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― 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

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

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“His smile is laced with dynamite. "Go to sleep"
"Go to hell."
He works his jaw. Walks to the door. "I'm working on it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomorrow and two days from now I will be just fine and I'm so delirious I actually dare to believe it.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I only know now that the scientists are wrong.

The world is flat.

I know because I was tossed right off the edge and I've been trying to hold on for 17 years. I've been trying to climb back up for 17 years but it's nearly impossible to beat gravity when no one is willing to give you a hand.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“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

“One morning, I decided to type up my notes, putting them in order. I became obsessed with writing and rewriting whenever I wasn't at school or seeing Euan. I saw connections I hadn't noticed at the time, good things which happened, as well as the mistakes which were made, and I realized it was finally time to forgive myself for what happened with Hannah.
For better or worse, it's my story.
And I'm still here to keep telling it.”
― Sue Wallman, I Know You Did It

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I’m tired of living without really living.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“Everyone in this world is breathing borrowed air.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“...I want to be fearless and free. It's just life, Will. It'II be over before we know it.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart