Sarah Silverwood > Sarah's Quotes

“A common misconception about me is that it's always easy to talk. But, truly, it depends on who is listening.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerful

“And yet…if all of it hadn’t happened, would we still be us? Or is the miracle of our relationship the result of a precise combination of tragedies that broke us both so completely that when we collided, we became something entirely new?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“It's not the worst thing to break a little every now and then. It builds character.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“Others may insult you, injure you-even kill you and cut you to pieces - yet they are powerless to harm your character. Nothing can defile your mind or force you to be unjust outside of your own will.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“I met a man once—this was many years ago”, I continued “he was a Buddhist monk and he told me something I've never forgotten. He said that if you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“I never told you—how I felt. But I loved you, and I think a part of me might always love you. Maybe you were my mate, and I never knew it. Maybe I’ll spend the rest of my life wondering about that. Maybe I’ll see you again in the Afterworld, and then I’ll know for sure. But until then…until then I’ll miss you, and I’ll wish you were here.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Complete Throne of Glass Collection Full Series

“She let them grab her, let them pull her from the wagon.
I will not be afraid.
Celaena Sardothien lifted her chin and walked into the Salt Mines of Endovier.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“You do not yield.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“There is such beauty in resilience, in the ability to laugh despite it all.”
― Lauren Roberts, Reckless

“No matter how good of a life you lead, you wont please everyone. Someone will be glad to see you go.

Even when Socrates died, there were those who thought, "Phew-- now I can breathe freely. Maybe he didn't criticize me directly, but I always felt small and stupid in his presence.

So give up this futile pursuit of being liked by everyone. Simply live according to your principles. Then, when the time comes, you'll be ready to depart this world in contentment and peace.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Your experience of life is determined by how you look at it.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Nothing is stronger than a woman who is told she’s weak.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose. Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy. But after everything, and even when the skies turn scarlet and threatening, I still believe that if we are lucky enough to be alive, we must give thanks for the miracle of every moment of every day, no matter how flawed.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“True calm is a choice you make by deciding not to let your fears keep you stagnant.”
― Inadaze22, Measure Of A Man

“It won’t always go your way, so you can’t get trapped in this idea that just because you’ve imagined a possibility for yourself that you somehow deserve it. Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!”
― David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Do what I sometimes do when I get scared: imagine you're someone else, someone who's far braver and smarter.”
― Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“That's the point of it, Bryce. Of life. To live, to love, knowing that it might all vanish tomorrow. It makes everything that much more precious.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“And you don't give up. Because you know that if you do, then they win... So living, and living well - its the greatest fuck you that you can ever give them.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“My friends are with me and I am not afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood