Chronically Bookish Steph > Chronically's Quotes

“You make the people you care about feel like … He pauses. Like you want all of them. Not just the good parts. And that’s terrifying to someone who’s spent a lifetime avoiding those other pieces of themselves.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Like a weary bird flying out over the most desolate sea, I finally had a place to land.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“He looked at me with a hundred stories lit behind his eyes.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“He was not a man who needed to be seen; he was a man who made space for others to be seen.”
― E. J. Venter, The Relic of the Wildwood: A Classic Fantasy Quest Adventure

“Connection was not the same as presence. It did not vanish simply because she stood alone.”
― E. J. Venter, The Relic of the Wildwood: A Classic Fantasy Quest Adventure

“You are kind, though the world has not always been kind to you. That is a wonderful thing.”
― E. J. Venter, The Relic of the Wildwood: A Classic Fantasy Quest Adventure

“for all your gentleness toward others, you are not nearly so gentle with yourself.”
― E. J. Venter, The Relic of the Wildwood: A Classic Fantasy Quest Adventure

“A pain promised is often worse than pain itself.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“Know your line." It is a good advice for a son. For a man, even. But for a father? To protect our sons, there is no line we will not cross.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“She told me that a child needs to hear and truly understand only three phrases from their father as they grow up. ‘I love you.’ ‘I will help.’ And, ‘I don’t know.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“Easier to despise than understand. Easier to mock than empathise.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

“I know exactly why Icarus flew so high: when you’ve spent too long in the dark, you’ll melt your own wings just to feel the sun on your skin.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“It occurs to me that this lonely, beastly, bleeding boy is the only person who has ever fought for me, ever stood between me and the dark and told me to save myself.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“They averted their eyes from evil, and in doing so, became complicit in it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“Books,’ she once said, ‘are mirrors for the soul. So if you catch a glimpse of someone’s soul, you will know the mirror for them.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given. They helped him feel as if the lives he read about intertwined with his own, like threads in an ever-expanding rope. Stories made him strong.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“There were days in life that rolled by and were never really thought of again. And then there were days that were so beloved or important that they contained inside them everything that came after. Russian doll days, that were always inside the expanding future.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“He had made their love into a blanket and burrowed deep under it.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Sometimes everything you need isn’t so far from where you start.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Train

“Maybe, I thought, the garden keeps you because you’re golden hour made real.”
― Ashley Poston, The Someday Garden

“She had given too much for too long and now she would give no more. She did not want to belong to anyone.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk

“she wanted to drink a Negroni in the sun, to have her bones warmed. She wanted apricity–a word she’d recently learned from a lexicographer on Radio 4 that meant the feeling of the sun warming her back.”
― Helen Russell, Laura Clark Is Away from Her Desk

“Nana always said that books made better friends than people anyway. Books will take you anywhere if you let them, she used to say, and I think she was right.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Some people appear happy on the outside and you only know they’re broken inside if you listen as well as look.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Everyone you meet is inevitably flawed... I don't avoid broken people because I think I'm better than them. I just don't like looking at my own reflection.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“...but nightmares are dreams too.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Stars cannot shine without darkness.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“A lot of people would think I have a dream job, but nightmares are dreams too.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Little girls are different from little boys: they’re made of sugar and spice and scar for life. I’ve still got my scars. Just because they’re on the inside doesn’t mean they’re not there.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie