The Bumblebee > The's Quotes

“If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,” said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

“she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“...I feel like...soup.'

'Oh, dear. It seems that almost drowning has made you very stupid.'

'I don't care,' Rose said, closing her eyes and tilting her head, her face shrouded in steam. 'I am stupid and I am happy and I am soup.”
― Lex Croucher, Infamous

“The thing about fucking off to the woods is that unless you are a very particular, very rare sort of person, it does not take long to understand why people left said woods in the first place.”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“Even if a creator made a character to be straight, they put those characters out into the world, right? So those characters are mine now. And I say that Steve and Bucky are gay as hell.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“When I'm old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. But for now, she'd had enough of darkness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“I think I have Ring Pops somewhere here, from trick-or-treating. I went as myself.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“Sometimes a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“There would be barking dogs chasing circles around the noisy kitchen, and the ego-crushing experience of having to explain to their entire sharp-eyed family that this plan they'd laboriously pitched as the right thing to do actually had them feeling quite intimidated after a grand total of one try, and that they now, at the age of twenty-nine, would like very much to return to the safe shelter of their childhood for an indefinate amount of time until they'd figured out just what the hell they were doing.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Okay. Mosscap. I'm Dex. Do you have a gender?"

"No."

"Me neither.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“The robot sat for a moment, considering. "I don't want to separate myself from other robots any more than I already have," it said. "I am having the most incredible experience out here. I've seen species of trees that don't live in my part of the world. I've been on a boat. I've played with domesticated cats. I have a satchel!" It gestured at the bag hanging at its side for emphasis. "A satchel for my belongings! I am doing things no robot has ever done, and while that's marvelous, I ... I don't want to become removed from tham. The aggregate differences I have are only going to increase as we continue along, Sibling Dex. It's very nice to be famous, but I don't know how I feel about it yet, and I'm beginning to wonder if it's a trait I'll have among my own kind as well. So, you see, it's enough that I'm experientialy different; I don't want to be physically different too." It paused. "Does that make sense?”
― Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

“Georgiana already felt so settled that if she were forced to settle any further, she might lose sentience altogether and become an integral part of the structure of the house - the human equivalent of a load-bearing beam.”
― Lex Croucher, Reputation

“In the dark recesses of her mind, she imagined prostrating herself at their feet, begging them to take her on and make her their fourth child; she would offer to confine herself to her father's study and have meals delivered through the door, haunting them like a sorrowful, literary ghost.”
― Lex Croucher, Reputation

“We are exactly that, Signor. Corsairs, robbers, pirates. I, however, am also a bibliophile, and you are impeding my visit to the library. So either assassinate me now and get it over with, or kindly step aside.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“Charming man, shame she would have to assassinate him one day soon.”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“(After all, the Wisteria Ladies’ Junior Division motto was: “Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and hopefully the other person dies.”)”
― India Holton, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

“But as long as they gave us medals,
that fixed it, as far as the army was concerned. You expect heroes to survive
terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don’t ever have to ask why
the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

“Young ladies have a remarkable way of letting you know that they think you a "quiz" without actually saying the words. A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The same hostile roof now again rose before me; my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart: I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression. The gaping wound of my wrongs too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished." (Bronte, p.264)

"A sneer, however, whether covert or open, had now no longer that power over me it once possessed; as I sat between my cousins, I was surprised to find how easy I felt under the total neglect of the one and the semi-sarcastic attentions of the other--Eliza did not mortify, nor Georgiana ruffle me. The fact was, I had other things to think about within the last few months feelings had been stirred in me so much more potent than any they could raise--pains and pleasures so much more acute and exquisite had been excited, than any it was in their power to inflict or bestow--that their airs gave me no concern either for good or bad.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“Still I did not answer, and still I writhed myself from his grasp: for I was still incredulous.

"Do you doubt me, Jane?"

"Entirely."

"You have no faith in me?"

"Not a whit."

"Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little sceptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove: I caused a rumour to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not — I could not — marry Miss Ingram. You — you strange, you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“You need not look in that way," I said; "if you do, I'll wear nothing but my old Lowood frocks to the end of the chapter. I'll be married in this lilac gingham: you may make a dressing-gown for yourself out of the pearl-grey silk, and an infinite series of waistcoats out of the black satin.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He will never love me; but he shall approve me; I will show him energies he has not yet seen, resources he has never suspected.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I tumbled wildly through the air. The ground was so far away I could see the entire island: the misty stone mountains and verdant jungle surrounded by white sand and teal ocean. I was higher than a flock of birds, higher than a human had any right being. And it would have been extraordinary and beautiful had I, you might recall, not been falling to my very imminent and no doubt painful death. I did scream now, quite loudly.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“How did you get a demon in your chicken?'

'The usual way. Couldn't put it in the rooster. That's how you get basilisks.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“You cannot help people who do not want help,” rumbled Fenris. “You can’t force someone to do what you think is best for them.” He paused, then added, somewhat reluctantly, “Well, you can. But they don’t appreciate it and most of the time it turns out that you were wrong.” “But—” “We can only save people who want to be saved,” said the dust-wife. “If it’s still bothering you, we’ll come back afterward, assuming any of us are alive to do so.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“In his world, people didn’t just up and move house with barely
any warning. They had employers to give at least a month’s notice to, family
members popping in to help them pack, and scores of friends to throw them
tearful going-away parties. They didn’t pack up their possessions in a single
morning, say “I’ll be off, then,” and just go.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“Vex closed his eyes.. Healing his Shaking Sickness wasn't the only reason he missed Lu, and he hated that he had to tell himself that not to feel selfish. As if he needed more reasons to be mad at his body.

It isn't fair, he'd wanted to scream so many times. The rational part of him knew it wasn't his body's fault, but the rest of him hated this vessel he was trapped it.

This scarred, shaky, dying vessel.”
― Sara Raasch, These Divided Shores

“Some scars are carved into our bones - a part of who we are, shaping what we become.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“Never did I imagine such luminous joy existed, and never again would I be content to remain in the shadows.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess