Regina Foo > Regina's Quotes

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“CUSTOMER: I’d like to buy this audiobook.
BOOKSELLER: Great.
CUSTOMER: Only, I don’t really like this narrator.
BOOKSELLER: Oh.
CUSTOMER: Do you have a selection of narrators to choose from? Ideally, I’d like Benedict Cumberbatch”
― Jen Campbell, More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

“CUSTOMER: I’d love to write a book.
BOOKSELLER: Then you should write one.
CUSTOMER: I really don’t have the time.
BOOKSELLER: I’m sure you could make time.
CUSTOMER: No, you don’t get it; I really don’t have the time. I had my fortune read on Monday, and the fortune teller lady said that I’m going to get knocked down by a bus next week. She said that it’ll probably kill me
BOOKSELLER: ... Oh. Well, er, that doesn’t sound very nice.
CUSTOMER: No, it doesn’t, does it? It’s really annoying, too, ’cause I’d booked a holiday for next month, and I was really looking forward to it.”
― Jen Campbell, More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Also, I have duct tape. Ordinary duct tape, like you buy at a hardware store. Turns out even NASA can’t improve on duct tape.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid.” I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“But then again I wonder if what we feel in our hearts today isn't like these raindrops still falling on us from the soaked leaves above, even though the sky itself long stopped raining. I'm wondering if without our memories, there's nothing for it but for our love to fade and die.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“It's our choice," Emble snapped in retort. "And one I'm proud to make. No one is obligated to serve the Petrichor, but we live longer than anyone in Eaux or Trilinia or anywhere else in the Midlands, even. We are safe within these walls, we have been blessed with so much. So the Petrichor asks something from us in return? It's a small sacrifice, I think.”
― M. Lewis-Lerman, Beware the Sheep

“Horridor scoffed. "The people are sheep, Mavis; they will go where they're told."

"Ah, but it is the sheep you must beware, Hubert, for in herds they are mighty.”
― M. Lewis-Lerman, Beware the Sheep

“I have seen many atrocities, but they are outweighed by the kind deeds that may seem small, but when added together, create a strong human spirit. Perhaps you would benefit from living a simple life away from war and politics.”
― Carl Alves, Two For Eternity

“Fear held you back from achieving your greatest state, so why did they let it hold them back and control the lives they should be living themselves?”
― Angie Anomalous, Uriel

“God always has a plan. For everyone."

"How can you be so sure? No one has even seen this 'God.' How does anyone know he even exists?"

"No one knows about Him because He doesn't interfere with our lives. When you pray for things, He won't give you exactly what you pray for; He will give you the opportunities to make it happen yourself. If He just gave you everything, there would be nothing for us to learn the ways of life; we would always have the easy way out.”
― Angie Anomalous, Uriel

“When it comes to humans... or anything for that matter, looks can be deceiving and so can actions.”
― Angie Anomalous, Uriel

“Someone who looks innocent can use that against people. It's not the looks you should be judging people on; it's their hearts.”
― Angie Anomalous, Uriel

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore,”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“A good marriage is, at least, one part conspiracy.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death. Who had said that? Someone else who loved books.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls