Mae Swan > Mae's Quotes

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Silence creates its own violence.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“I loved him, but I didn’t need him, and I thought that was the way it was supposed to be.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“The excuses we make for them are outrageous, but they’re nothing compared with the ones we make for ourselves.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“I need it to be a love story. I need it to be that.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“He saw darkness in me and held out a hand to lead me further into the shadows.”
― K.M. Moronova, Leave Me Behind

“You’re just the weapon fired, not the evil that wields it.”
― K.M. Moronova, Leave Me Behind

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The kind of alone no one desires. The kind where you think you want to drown, but in reality, all you want is to be saved.”
― Alexis Patton, Us Dark Few

“This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I love you," I said, and stabbed him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“What is love, without freedom?" she murmured against his skin. He leaned close to kiss her shoulder, then to whisper in her ear. "What is life, without you?”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“Why must you always sacrifice yourself, and call that love?”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“A pause. A breath. How nice it would be, Grey thought, to lie next to him and die. For all this to be over.”
― V.L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“To be reminded of everything I had already lost while looking into the eyes of everything I had left to lose.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Because if I allow myself to be angry, I will never stop.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“{And why would I want you?} Because you wish to be loved, and I have loved many monsters.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Daughter of No Worlds

“Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn't stolen”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“She was locked in the dangerous embrace of Kaine Ferron, and it felt like home.”
― SenLinYu, Alchemised

“If I’d kissed you,” he goes on, “you would have wanted me for an
afternoon, and I would have wanted you for the rest of my life.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“It's cruel, really, how the world tends to present its most beautiful parts to you when you're so profoundly sad.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen

“Forgive me-- a monster so rarely feels wanted.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting

“Let us lie here forever. Let us be buried as wild things are, by tooth and claw and worm. Let the grasses grow up through the sockets of our eyes. Let them find us in seven years or seventy, and let their brows furrow, because they cannot tell my bones from yours.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Everlasting