Quotes - Steve Silvas (stevesilvas) (Vallejo, CA) Showing 1-30 of 93

#1

“All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.”
― Michael Chabon

tags: books, cliche, novels, originality, writing

#2

“I want to explain her in a way that would make you love her, but the problem with this is that loving is something we all do alone and through different sets of eyes.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#3

“She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

tags: feminism, inspirarional, life

24 likes

#4

“What I'm saying is, the pain is in the aftermath, more than it is the break.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#5

“Miri said this to me once: Every horror movie ends the way you know it will.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#6

“When something bad is actually happening, it's easy to underreact, because a part of you is wired to assume it isn't real. When you stop underreacting, the horror is unique because it is, unfortunately, endless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

tags: horror

47 likes

#7

“My heart is a thin thing, these days - shred of paper blown between the spaces in my ribs.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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#8

“And there it is, the point which it all boils down to eventually. The point where there are no words, no theories, no explanations for behaviors that baffle and infuriate and hurt. Just that. Men.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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#9

“When she doesn’t like the reality of things, she finds a reality she prefers.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

35 likes

#10

“Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

7 likes

#11

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

tags: design, usability, web-design

6 likes

#12

“How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job a little better?”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

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#13

“Get rid of half the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left.”
― Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

tags: content, usability, webdesign, writing

14 likes

#14

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

tags: inspirational, love

76577 likes

#15

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: charlie, favourite-books, inspirational, sad, soul-searching, wallflower

22980 likes

#16

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: change, life

20968 likes

#17

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

17543 likes

#18

“I would die for you. But I won't live for you.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: love

11879 likes

#19

“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

5333 likes

#20

“Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2230 likes

#21

“Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

tags: relationships

151 likes

#22

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower

2437 likes

#23

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

1695 likes

#24

“Time's the thief of memory”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: jake-chambers, memory, roland-deschain, time

518 likes

#25

“Long days and pleasant nights.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

137 likes

#26

“where the world ends is where you must begin”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

93 likes

#27

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

21139 likes

#28

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18073 likes

#29

“Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

tags: toby

243 likes

#30

“If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

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