E.J. J. Squires > E.J.'s Quotes

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Well, as I see it, the only way to win is to play the game and beat everyone at it. And I mean, who’s to say you can’t make your own rules?” I say.
“Spoken like a true outlaw,” Nicholas retorts.
I smirk, a little guiltily. “I suppose. Thank goodness you went along with it. Anyone else would have refused to register me or left me to Master Douglas.” Shivers go up my spine.
“Partners in crime.”
I laugh at first, but then think about it. “That’s kind of sad.”
“Or exciting.” He stares at me for a moment. “Well, speaking as your registrar, you need to get some rest.”
“Are you ever going to let me have any fun?” I ask.
“Not until the sun stops shining.”
“Well, technically it goes down every night…” I say.
“Not in this country.”
― E.J. Squires, Savage Run: Book I

“Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I’ll either be an outlaw, or I’ll be dead.”
― E.J. Squires, Savage Run: Book I

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!”
― Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Selected Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.”
― Jim MORRISON

“People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.”
― Josephine Humphreys, Rich in Love

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Passing him with frightening speed, I see him sailing downward with his open parachute. “It won’t open!”
“Pull harder!”
Looking down, I estimate that at this speed it will only be a matter of seconds before I collide with the black lava rocks below. They rigged it! is all I can think. President Volkov won. I lost. I failed Gemma. I failed Nicholas. I failed myself.
All of a sudden, someone rams into me from behind and hooks his arms and legs around my body. I look back and see Cory. “You’re crazy!” I scream as we spin out of control.
“I know!” He smiles like he really is, but he feeds off of this kind of insanity. “Hold on!”
The ground is so close and I can see the green grass and smell the scent of it mixed with the sulfur. He helps me turn around and I lock my arms around his thick shoulders, my legs around his firm hips. We’ll die together, and he doesn’t seem to care one bit. He really is insane!”
― E.J. Squires, Savage Run: Book I

“Mai whispers, “Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe.”
“You of all people,” Nicholas says, “should know that freedom is more important than being safe.”
― E.J. Squires, Savage Run: Book I

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid.”
― Johnny Depp

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving