Emily > Emily's Quotes

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like betrayal”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears.

We are blessed.


Let them all go.


The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me.

Moments.

All gathering towards this one.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“Moments.

All gathering towards this one.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“I made a fatal error thinking he could save me.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.”
― Jenny Downham , Before I Die

“It's utterly beautiful not to know my own edges.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“Dust Glitter Rain”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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

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

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Sometimes it’s better to say something stupid than nothing at all.”
― Sandy Hall

“I'll die of embarrassment."
"At least you'll die knowing.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“I’m really tired of being embarrassed all the time. And trying and having nothing happen.”
― Sandy Hall, A Little Something Different

“We bend. I bend to sweep crumbs and I bend to wipe vomit and I bend to pick up little ones and wipe away tears... And at the end of these days I bend next to the bed and I ask only that I could bend more, bend lower. Because I serve a Savior who came to be a servant. He lived bent low. And bent down here is where I see His face. He lived, only to die. Could I? Die to self and just break open for love. This Savior, His one purpose to spend Himself on behalf of messy us. Will I spend myself on behalf of those in front of me? And people say, “Don’t you get tired?” and yes, I do. But I’m face to face with Jesus in the dirt, and the more I bend the harder and better and fuller this life gets. And sure, we are tired, but oh we are happy. Because bent down low is where we find fullness of Joy.”
― Katie J. Davis

“Adoption is wonderful and beautiful and the greatest blessing I have ever experienced. Adoption is also difficult and painful. Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption.”
― Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie

“Sitting there, in the coffee house, I saw so many stories behind the lips of people who had left them untold.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“If you feel a need to get wired, take my advice. Loud, fast music coupled with strong, black coffee is the best way to go.”
― Lou Brutus

“I am fine with coffee in the coldest night; I don't need wine to make the dark more romantic.”
― Wrushank Sorte

“Stay Calm, Stay Covered, Stay Considerate, Stay Cautious & Stay Caffeinated.”
― Loren Weisman

“For some reason riding a caffeinated dragon just sounded like a monumentally bad idea.”
― A.J. Sky, Starstorm