Giulia > Giulia's Quotes

“What would friendship entail?

Well, on Wednesdays, we sacrifice a cat to Satan”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“You want me to shout, 'Fuck this, it sucks,' in the middle of Disneyland? The Happiest Place on Earth?”
― Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

“His weird little bastard accent had already been growing on me, but now that I was aware of its history, even more so.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Perfect on Paper

“I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“God says, Which one of you fuckers can get to me first?”
― Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“It’s a classic love story. I hit on him at a party, he asked me out, then we fought an epic magical battle between good and evil side by side, and now we need a vacation.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Red Scrolls of Magic

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“And when one day people look back on me and what my life meant, I don’t want them to say, ‘Alec Lightwood fought in the Dark War’ or even ‘Alec Lightwood was Consul once.’ I want them to think, ‘Alec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“Nora.” He just barely smiles. “You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Like my grandmother always said, “Your opinions are valid and important. Unless it’s some stupid bullshit you’re being shitty about, in which case you can just go fuck yourself.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“The posters bore the words WITH THE PASSING YEARS COMES...IMPOTENCE! Magnus found himself staring at the posters with a sort of absent horror. He looked at Alec and found that Alec could not tear his eyes away either. He wondered if Alec was aware that Magnus was three hundred years old and whether Alec was considering exactly how impotent one might become after that much time.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“It's Ravka. There's always more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I've taken knives, bullets, and too many punches to count, all for a little piece of this town," said Kaz. "This is the city I bled for. And if Ketterdam has taught me anything, it's that you can always bleed a little more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag."

"Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow."

"But what if he's nonbinary?" Abel wondered. "And we've offended him."

"Then he'll eat us." Roa considered it. "I can respect that.”
― Alex London, City of Thieves

“Vincent Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would get the happiness inside him. Many people thought he was mad and stupid for doing so because the paint was toxic, never mind that it was obvious that eating paint couldn't possibly have any direct correlation to one's happiness, but i never saw that.
If you were so unhappy that even the maddest ideas could possibly work, like painting the walls of your internal organs yellow, then you are going to do it. It's really no different than falling in love or taking drugs. There is a greater risk of getting your heart broken or overdosing, but people still do ir everyday because there was always that chance it could make things better.
Everyone has their own yellow paint.”
― Alexandra Timmer

“Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.”
― J M Barrie, Peter Pan

“Come hither, Fool."

The Fool jingled miserably across the floor.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies