Carmen (TheReadingTrashQueen) > Carmen's Quotes

“There’s something quiet about you. For example, if you were a radiowave, you’d have your very own wavelength. That’s isolating, I think, because I don’t think everyone can hear you”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“I'm like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'

I stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.”
― Confucius, The Analects

“Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca.
(The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“How's things, buddy?" Trey asks after we run through a few finger-warming exercises. I realize this is what people call small talk. I also realize the world would be a better place without it.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“She was eleven, after all. She was both even and odd. She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist, dragon. The list went on.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“It is enough to say that the Greeks thought it was Chaos who, with a massive heave, or a great shrug, or hiccup, vomit or cough, began the long chain of creation that has ended with pelicans and penicillin and toadstools and toads, sea-lions, lions, human beings and daffodils and murder and art and love and confusion and death and madness and biscuits.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

“Gaia visited her daughter Mnemosyne, who was busy being unpronounceable.”
― Stephen Fry, Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

“I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Book of Magic

“Okay, baby. But do you like my petey?” Derek stifled a giggle: He had heard just about every penis synonym there was, but this was a new one. “It’s fucking gorgeous,” he said. “Your shade of cockhead pink is my favorite color!”
― David Noh

“Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much that you could think of nothing else?” “Yes, which is why I always end up eating the whole chocolate bar anyway.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Unleash the Night

“Who the hell are you?"
"I'm the witch's apprentice. Who the hell are you?”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding