Mae Leaf > Mae's Quotes

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Her father had once said that the poor might suffer poverty, but the rich had to contend with uselessness, and there was nothing like idleness to eat away at a person’s soul.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“Look around and tell me: Isn't the city beautiful today? In fact, you'll notice it's more beautiful than usual. That's because you feel it may be in danger. It's only when something's threatened that your realize just how much you love it.”
― Tonke Dragt, De brief voor de koning

“How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“You can’t force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“One always has hope for human nature”
― Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder

“It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.”
― Agatha Christie, Sleeping Murder

“Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one’s way through.”
― Kate Morton, The Lake House

“I cannot take away that sadness. Sometimes you need to be sad so that you can appreciate joy all the more. Just as rain must fall between sunny spells. Farewell!!”
― Tonke Dragt, De brief voor de koning

“And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and its ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now. It was never about saving my life. Not, at least, in the way that I thought.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“I can admire the perfect murderer--I can also admire a tiger-- that splendid tawny-striped beast. But I will admire him from outside his cage. I will not go inside.
That is to say, not unless it is my duty to do so. For you see, Mr. Shaitana, the tiger might spring. . . .”
― Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table

“They have been in prison so long that, if the prison door stands open, they would no longer notice!”
― Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

“I feel that if I could sweep all this away . . . all the buildings and the sects and the fierce squabbling churches . . . that I might see Christ's quiet figure riding into Jerusalem on a donkey--and believe in him.”
― Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

“If you have a belief in yourself and in the rightness of what you are doing, you can often accomplish things that are worth while.”
― Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death

“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle