Jessica > Jessica's Quotes

“Careful, a voice inside her head said, proceed with cunning.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“My name is Celaena Sardothien. But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“She brought her mouth close to his ear. "My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered. "But it makes no difference if my name's Celaena or Lillian or Bitch, because I'd still beat you, no matter what you call me." She smiled at him as she stood. He just stared up at her, his bloody nose leaking down the side of his cheek. She took the handkerchief from her pocket and dropped it on his chest. "You can keep that," she said before she walked off the veranda.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“The kiss obliterated her. It was like coming home or being born or suddenly finding an entire half of herself that had been missing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“This girl wasn't like wildfire, she was wildfire.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer

“Maybe people don't owe you their gender”
― Kiersten White, Hide

“There was nothing fancy about his grandma, only funny warmth and honesty. Always honesty. Brandon misses her so much. Nothing's been the same since she died, which is even sadder, because nothing has changed.”
― Kiersten White, Hide

“He thinks Jesus would like Brandon, would understand that Brandon made his choice to save others.”
― Kiersten White, Hide

“Atrius like the insurance?” the clipboard guy asks.
“No, like the—” He sighs. “Yeah. I named myself after health insurance. It’s social commentary. I can’t get insurance, so I became insurance.”
― Kiersten White, Hide

“I don't know. White people. You really never can tell.”
― Kiersten White, Hide

“there’s no such thing as happily ever after. There’s only happy for a short period of time before everything falls apart.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Do you always do that?” she asks.
“Do what?”
“Make a joke to avoid talking about your true feelings?”
“Only ninety percent of the time,” I say.
“I make jokes because it’s easier to pretend I’m not feeling what I’m feeling than to actually feel it.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“The lake is darker than a coffin with the lid shut,” she’d say. “And as deep as the ocean. If you sink under, you’ll never come back up again. You’ll be trapped forever.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“I think he did it, but I just can’t prove it. —Taylor Swift, “No Body, No Crime”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“The only differences here are that Boone isn’t a local, my heart’s too shattered to melt, and there’s no such thing as happily ever after. There’s only happy for a short period of time before everything falls apart.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“It’s got a surreal Little Mermaid vibe to it. Like I’m a prince transfixed by a siren I’ve just plucked from the sea.”
― Riley Sager, The House Across the Lake

“Each time, I’m struck by how strange it is to see someone I think of as forever young looking thoroughly middle-aged. It’s the same jarring feeling I sometimes get when I look in the mirror.”
― Riley Sager, Middle of the Night

“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It’s the things you have to work the hardest for that make all the pain worth it.”
― Anne-Marie Meyer, Christmasland