Allie > Allie's Quotes

“Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I want the key", he said. "The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It's there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can find it. That's what I want," he finished, softly. "I want the key.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Are we rich?" "We're unstoppable.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.”
― John Searles, Help for the Haunted

“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Everything...affects everything”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“She has no idea. The effect she can have.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Sometimes its hard to tell how fast the current's moving until you're headed over a waterfall”
― Kimberly McCreight, Reconstructing Amelia

“Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“As always, one of her books was next to her.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Of course I loved books more than people.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Every heart is made of stories.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? ”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale