Amanda Cavanagh > Amanda's Quotes

“You see a man drowning, you must try to save him even if you cannot swim.”
― Irena Sendler, Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

“Fear makes you weak; anger makes you strong.”
― Irena Sendler

“Time goes on even when we do not.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“A laugh forces its way out of my chest. Why am I being such a hypocrite? I came here to destroy the monarchy, not to marry it. By the time I’m through with these people, romance will be the least of their problems.”
― Cordelia K. Castel, The Princess Trials

“Hate that Warner is probably right, that profanity is probably a failure of the mind, that only idiots need to rely on foul language to express themselves properly-or whatever stupid shit he said to Adam that one time.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“Doll Hands is a serial killer. My pants were getting tight over a serial killer. Kenji is going to love this.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“Aaron Warner Anderson is a living legend.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“What makes you think I have any leverage over her?”
“Because she’s been saying your name in her dreams.”
A shock of pleasure moves through me. Automatic endorphin rush. “What? Really?”
“No.”
“Wow, okay, fuck you.” Warner actually smiles. It’s one of his rare grins, dimples appearing and disappearing just to mess with your head. He goes from murderer to boy next door to murderer in two seconds flat. “Look how disappointed you are,” he says softly. “How delighted you were when you thought a minion of The Reestablishment, sent here to kill you and your entire family, was having inappropriate dreams about you.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“I'm living Kenji's dream right now," I whisper, still petting the bird's head. "Except for all the blood, I'm basically a fairy-tale prince. All I need is a musical number and a fairy godmother.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“It’s simple logic: if we believe our choices are our own—if we do not know we are being bent into obeisance—we will not be tempted to revolt.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“People don't really send letters anymore," he says to the rodent, ripping open the envelope. "Not unless they want to say something really-" James's eyebrows fly upward, the words dying in his throat as he unsheathes the shimmery card from its sleeve. I watch, paralyzed, as his eyes move across the page. He lifts his head sharply, scowling at the squirrel as he says- "Who the fuck is Sebastian? She's really getting married? The serial killer is getting married next week to some douchebag named Sebastian Alastair von Douchebag the Fourth? The hot ones are always taken." James mutters to the squirrel”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“That’s like telling water not to be wet,” Kenji mutters, crunching popcorn again. “This man lives to worry about you. It’s his favorite thing to do. Between worrying about you and talking about you and frolicking through fields aggressively shouting your name at wildlife, I’m surprised the man has any time left to fuck with the world.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“I should've know for sure it was a trap a few beats earlier, when they sent a gorgeous murder into my cell to distract me with her gorgeousness.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“You know what’ll fuck you up? Watching adults terrorize children over and over again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“He's faster than I am; stronger; smiling as he dodges my imperfect shot. Blood is now smeared across his face, streaked through his hair. His clothes drip as he walks, his boots leaving red footprints along the white floors. He's wounded in several places but this fact doesn't seem to bother him. In fact he seems delighted. There's no one left to kill but me. The inmate winks at me. "Looks like we're finally alone, beautiful" I fire again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“Growing up with these two has ruined me for regular relationships. I want what they have”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“You live your life as if nothing can hurt you even though your body is covered in scars”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“When there's something you want but can't have, you can be patient or creative. Choose a path.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“People have too many problems of their own. Those who reek of neediness are pariahs; there’s no faster path to isolation than to ask for help.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me

“There's a rage that lives inside me ... The rage of a child still too young to fight the monsters when they came calling.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Watch Me