Bruna > Bruna's Quotes

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

“Some days I’m the ocean. Some days I’m the ship. Tonight, I’m the lighthouse: at the edge, alone, and burning. -Vasiliki”
― H.D. Carlton, Does It Hurt?

“So what if you failed? You're never going to accomplish anything worthwhile if you keep to your comfort zone.”
― Lauren Asher, Terms and Conditions

“If you don’t believe in yourself, no one will.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“People sometimes still drown in the shallow end,”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. One day, when the young ladies were of age to be married, a terrible, three-headed dragon laid siege to the kingdom, burning villages with fiery breath. It spoiled crops and burned churches. It killed babies, old people, and everyone in between.

The king promised a princess’s hand in marriage to whoever slayed the dragon. Heroes and warriors came in suits of armor, riding brave horses and bearing swords and arrows.

One by one, these men were slaughtered and eaten.

Finally the king reasoned that a maiden might melt the dragon’s heart and succeed where warriors had failed. He sent his eldest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon listened to not a word of her pleas. It swallowed her whole.

Then the king sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon did the same. Swallowed her before she could get a word out.

The king then sent his youngest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and she was so lovely and clever that he was sure she would succeed where the others had perished.

No indeed. The dragon simply ate her.

The king was left aching with regret. He was now alone in the world.

Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls?

The dragon? Or their father?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You need someone to bend you over and fuck that attitude right out of you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“We didn't get our time.”
― Jennifer Ryder, Sing it, Sam

“The people you love weren’t algebra: to be calculated, subtracted, or held at arm’s length across a decimal point.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.”
― H.D. Carlton, Haunting Adeline

“You need to figure out your morals, and what you’re okay living with. Not what you’ve been taught, but what you feel in your gut.”
― H.D. Carlton, Hunting Adeline

“I hated when someone told me to smile, as if a smile of mine belonged to them and not to me.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Why did love hurt worse than pain?”
― Danielle Lori, The Maddest Obsession

“Now that I’ve forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“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

“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.”
― Penelope Douglas, Corrupt

“There are just some things that are more exciting when they’re a secret.”
― Penelope Douglas, Hideaway

“Your body can only feel one pain at a time.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“L’appel du vide.”
― Penelope Douglas, Conclave

“This wasn’t heartbreak. Or sorrow.
It was the utter desolation of my soul.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Those were the endings I found solace in. The ones that said, Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“A temple needs more than one pillar to stand. There’s more to life than work.”
― Cora Reilly, Sweet Temptation

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Falling in love with yourself is ten times harder than falling in love with someone else,”
― Lauren Asher, Final Offer

“Challenges were only hard if you went into them expecting not to succeed.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I’m not going to give up what I love just because I might not have it forever,”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love