Eleanor > Eleanor's Quotes

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
― Mark Twain

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I don't like you, Park," she said, sounding for a second like she actually meant it. "I..." - her voice nearly disappeared - "think I live for you."
He closed his eyes and pressed his head back into his pillow.
"I don't think I even breathe when we're not together," she whispered. "Which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?"
He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.

It’s time to jump.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“That's the thing about faith. It works.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. ~ Amy”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“And in her smile I see something more beautiful than the stars.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“I am as silent as death.
Do this: Go to your bedroom. Your nice, safe, warm bedroom that is not a glass coffin behind a morgue door. Lie down on your bed not made of ice. Stick your fingers in your ears. Do you hear that? The pulse of life from your heart, the slow in-and-out from your lungs? Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me.
Because what if I am dead?”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“I
quit
thinking.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe

“I stare at the stars... And even though there are so many and they look so close together, I know they are light years apart. The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another, but they are so distant, so very far apart, that they cannot feel the warmth of each other, even though they are made of burning.
This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.”
― Beth Revis, Across the Universe