Cathy > Cathy's Quotes

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I love.
The most reckless thing of all.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the world know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“No one should die alone.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I climb into the dark for you
Are you waiting in the stars for me?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Are you congratulating me on my life, or on my death?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.”
― Alfred Tennyson, Crossing the Bar