Whitney Johnson > Whitney's Quotes

“It’s possible actions only have the weight we give them,” she says. “We can decide what something means.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“My mother, you see, is the great love of my life.”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“It's a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Gwyn whispered, “I am the rock against which the surf crashes.” Nesta straightened at the words, as if they were a prayer and a summons. Gwyn lifted the blade. “Nothing can break me.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Amren put a hand above Nesta's heart. "That's the key, isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it... that's the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder." She gestured to the stars zooming past. "The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“What is so wrong about being a bitch? It is the closest a girl can be to a wolf.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Well, that’s how all love works,” August says. “You can’t love anyone without the fear of losing them, without the forethought of grief. There is an inherent loss in love, but that does not mean that love is not worth it.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Just because she is choosing a different life path from you does not give you the right to belittle her. She’s not doing anything wrong. She’s not hurting anyone. She simply wants a little red lipstick and a nice boy to notice her.’
‘But should’t she want more for her life than that?’
‘Why any woman wants for herself is not for you to decide. You would do well to remember this.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“These are the wild women who run barefoot through the meadow, who teach new songs to the birds, who howl at the moon together. Wild women are their own kind of magic.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“One day, I will be a rose. And I will plant myself somewhere so beautiful that I will never want to leave.” Her mother laughed. “And what if someone wants to pluck you?” “That is what the thorns are for,” she said.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“It is a mistake to think of grief as an absence. It’s more of a dark, shadowy thing that sits in constant periphery, always there, always stealing air and making it hard to breathe.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Yes, she is a grown woman, and is that not magical in itself? To have survived this long, despite the world’s penchant for beautiful dead girls?”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Grief is often too strange and too vast to fit into words.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Theirs was not a gentle love, it was a bleeding love. And she was done pretending she didn’t want it.”
― Alex Aster, Skyshade

“I’m not sure of much in this world, Isla, but I am sure of this. My love for you doesn’t know reason. It doesn’t know limit. It doesn’t know death. In every universe, every timeline, I am yours . . . and you are mine.”
― Alex Aster, Skyshade

“For anyone who has ever looked for strength in others and found it in themselves.”
― Alex Aster, Skyshade

“Don’t do that. Don’t underestimate yourself, when you’re trying. So many people never bother. They decide they can’t make a difference, so they don’t even try. And trying . . . that’s the hardest part. Not succeeding, but all the trying it takes to get there.”
― Alex Aster, Skyshade

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Once a story you’ve regarded as true has turned false, you begin suspecting all stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“You pride yourself on being a realist, I told myself, so face the facts. There’s been a coup, here in the United States, just as in times past in so many other countries. Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Totalitarianisms may crumble from within, as they fail to keep the promises that brought them to power; or they may be attacked from without; or both. There are no sure-fire formulas, since very little in history is inevitable”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Human beings deny other human beings’ humanity and call that power.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Cowardice and bigotry don’t have to have faces. Their actions speak loudly enough.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Kissing you is like touching the sky, like touching the horizon. God, Bree, it’ s even like touching the—” “The fall,” I whisper. “Not just standing at the edge, but going over. All of it.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Because,” I murmur, “once you lose everyone…fear loses its advantage.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound