Emkay > Emkay's Quotes

“Plenty of organisms live for a season, in order for those who come next to have a chance, Mayflies, daffodils, the octopus. We can accept that?'
'Well, we're hardwired not to accept our own demise. Daffodils are a lot more chill about it.'
'Okay, but we can be like daffodils together.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“On a long enough timeline, endings are inevitable.
Tragedy is inevitable.
Fortunately, so is joy.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I want to peel off all my skin, if only so I could be anything other than a naked body, something horrifying instead of vulnerable. Nobody looks at a pig corpse and thinks it could be made beautiful.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“Why is it that when they hide their faces, men become monsters instead of angels?”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Drink the milk.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“Imagination can take you Places....READ”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“So, being both depressed and anxious at the same time is absolutely wild.”
― A.L. Graziadei, Icebreaker

“He’s there in old house fronts and tired trees poking up from cement. He’s the bridge and the river. Each towering building. The burnished sky. How do you un-know someone if you only know most of you because of them? How do you even try?”
― Rhiannon Wilde, Henry Hamlet's Heart

“For a vicious moment, Andrew thought about slipping his fingers into Thomas's cut. Taking hold of his rib and breaking it. Pulling the soft crumbling bone from his chest and sewing it into his own. They'd be forever together, rib against rib, fused in gore and bone and adoration.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“An extraordinary amount of intimacy lay in exchanging art. Not for critique and not for class. Just to look. To feel. To understand each other.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In

“It was strange, Andrew thought, how when something moved in the dark, everyone’s first instinct was to go inside and hide under the covers. As if monsters couldn’t open doors and crawl into bed with you.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let The Forest In

“His face twisted through several contradictory emotions and he said, "For fuck's sake Andrew. Is there anything in this scenario that feels heterosexual or well-adjusted to you?”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“I'm sorry, but please don't be mad at me for reliving all of it. History is all you left me.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Are you stupid?” Seth asked.
“Yeah,” Neil said.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“Congratulations are in order, I suppose! Since I have none to give, I will tell the others to respond appropriately.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“I'm stupid, remember? I need things spelled out."
"Shut up."
"Am I at ninety-four yet?"
"You are at one hundred.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“Neil had been doing one stupid thing after another all year long and this has turned into one of the best years of his life.”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

“Is your learning curve a horizontal line?”
― Nora Sakavic, The King's Men