Maggie > Maggie's Quotes

“There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“Why, what's the matter,
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I’m not asking for anything beyond your company in sleep. Just let me rest with the sound of your heartbeat beside mine.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Hawksong

“I have good news and bad news The good news is that the jeep is still where we left it, and I got the damned thing working again."

"What's the bad news?"

"Something took my fuzzy dice.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“I sheathed my blade and glared at him. "And here I almost thought you weren't a complete bastard."

"Well, that's your mistake, not mine.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Don't tell me you fell something for the little . . . oh.' The vampire blinked, then curled his lip back, disgust and pity crossing his sharp features. 'Oh, sister. Really? That's just sad.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“What's the matter? Scared? Need your big vampire brother to go down first.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“I was a monster who killed and preyed on human life; I could never escape that, but at least I could choose what kind of lives I took”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Come back to life, love. I'll be here when you wake up.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“This is so unbearably inconvenient," he says. "I was prepared to hate him for the rest of my life.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Switch spots with me, J. He's making me feel all goosebumpy and shit, like maybe he's about to knife me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I promise myself then, in that moment, that I will hold him forever, just like this, until all the pain and torture and suffering is gone, until he's given a chance to live the kind of life where no one can wound him this deeply ever again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Hey, heart. Are you listening? You and I are officially at war.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“For her I bend, for you I break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I want to be your end, but you gotta let it begin.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn’t finished eating.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“How ever, I've learned that the heart can't be told when and who and how it should love. The heart does whatever the hell it wants to do. The only thing we can control is whether we give our lives and our minds the chance to catch up to our hearts.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday