Maylie Westerhausen > Maylie's Quotes

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Sometimes it's better not to look back.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I must apologize, it seems I've gone and gotten myself shot.”
― Millard in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

“That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“He’d never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“He tasted like joy, and joy tasted better on Earth.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“I am become death, destroyer of worlds”
― Kass Morgan

“Bellamy leaned back with a sigh and closed his eyes, wondering how long it would take until she stopped being the last person he thought about before he fell asleep.

- Bellamy about Clarke”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“He'd always assumed those ancient poets had been full of shit, or at least had much better drugs than he’d ever tried.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“Who we are and who we need to be to survive are two different things.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“You keep us alive, and I'll keep you on two feet.
- Bellamy Blake”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“Bellamy brought his hands behind his head and tilted his face towards the sun, exhaling as the warmth seeped into his skin. It was almost as nice as being in bed with a girl. Maybe even better, because the sun would never ask him what he was thinking.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“Take care of each other”
― Kass Morgan, Homecoming

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Aristotle

“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
― Aristotle

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
― Aristotle

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics