Copper Lemen > Copper's Quotes

“I wasn't ready to feel as bad as I did. I'd never felt so lonely.”
― Watt Key, Hideout

“In that moment, we were all witness to the dark truth that no matter where you are, how safe you feel, there are sometimes bad people looking for an opportunity to do bad things. And it's not all about winning against them; it's about being brave and not losing against yourself.”
― Watt Key, Hideout

“Then set the hounds loose, boy - it's time to kick demonic ass!”
― Darren Shan, Demon Thief

“Be with me forever. But see me as I really am. And everything they took from me.”
― Derek Milman

“the things you keep close to your heart better be broken too.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“It’s one thing to go into a fight knowing you’ll probably lose. Quite another to be told that to win, you must offer up your throat to be slit.”
― Darren Shan, Demon Apocalypse

“But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.”
― Darren Shan, Slawter

“This world was made to be cloaked in gray.
It wouldn’t feel natural if the sun shone brightly all the time.”
― Darren Shan, Bec

“You don't recognise the good times in life until it all goes bad and you look back and see how lucky you were, how easy you had things.”
― Darren Shan, Blood Beast

“You thought I was a werewolf?" Dervish asks.
"Yes" I answer hollowly.
"You ass.”
― Darren Shan, Lord Loss

“An unasked question is the most futile thing in the world,”
― Darren Shan, Lord Loss

“I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.”
― Blake Nelson, Paranoid Park

“The sun is up now, revealing all of us for what we really are.
And it's fucking blinding.”
― Derek Milman, Scream All Night

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“Funny the things you think about when it is too late.”
― Matt Shaw, Sick Bastards

“I wondered when it was someone could consider us together. Maybe back when the letters were going back and forth, back when we both were falling in love with the other, despite not even knowing who each other was. I didn’t need to see him, to know him, I just knew he was the other half of my soul, all the same.”
― Mallory Grant, Wrong Timing

“Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies