Crow Solace > Crow's Quotes

“Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said.
"That's not what I meant.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“You don't have to kiss me. You don't even have to like me, Heiress, but please don't make me do this alone.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I've learnt some Things. Like the way friendship can be just as intense, beautiful and endless as romance. Like the way there's love everywhere around me - there's love for my friends, there's love for my paintings, there's love for myself.”
― Alice Oseman, Loveless

“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

“There’s a time and a place for being normal. For most people, normal is their default setting. But for some, like you and me, normal is something we have to bring out, like putting on a suit for a posh dinner.”
― 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

“I don't know why I made all that fuss the other day. No that's a lie. I do know why. It's because I'm an idiot.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I think it's better to just read and not study books.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I think you should know that I make up a lot of stuff in my head and then get sad about it.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“we're all waiting for something to change. Patience can kill you”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I just like individual songs. I find one song that I really love, and then I listen to it about twenty billion times until I hate it and have ruined it for myself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“It's raining." He leans on his hand. "If the sun came back out, there'd be a rainbow. It'd be beautiful." / I look out of the window. The sky is grey. "There doesn't need to be a rainbow for it to be beautiful.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I always do this thing where I accidentally say self-deprecating stuff that makes other people feel really awkward, especially when it’s true.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I'm a little bit in love with everyone I meet.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Sometimes I wish I were a normal human being. But I can't. I'm not. No matter how hard I try.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“So,” he says, slyly raising his eyebrows with typical Michael suavity. “You hate yourself. I hate myself. Common interests. We should get together.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire