Micah > Micah's Quotes

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Life doesn't care how young you are. It forces you to grow up anyway.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“I understand that the person who gets the Death-Cast call isn’t the only one dying. If you really hold someone in your heart, you die too.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“It's heartbreaking how much it costs to be alive when you're always dying.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“I write short stories because I am one.
I wish I was a novel.
Breaths away from midnight, I know my final chapter is close.
I look up at Valentino, wondering what life could’ve offered if I had more pages in me.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“It’s not fair how someone can do everything right and still be hurt because someone else does one thing wrong.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“I'm too scared to even breathe because I might breathe too gay.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“Freedom should be freeing, but that doesn't mean it can't be heartbreaking.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“I want you to make more discoveries in your city, and I want you to be brave enough to make the first move again the next time someone catches your eye. And someone will catch your eye again. Please don't deny yourself that out of fear of losing someone again, or guilt because you're living on and I can't.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“It's a terrible loss whenever someone assumes they have more time than they do.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“I would've loved that. I feel robbed."
"You were robbed.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“It goes to show that even on your way out, there’s still time to let people in.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“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

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

“Everyone's different inside their head.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence