J.M. > J.M.'s Quotes

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“There is something deep deceptive in the reality.”
― Alexandar Tomov

“If you believe that you have the right to force me—use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“We always think we want to know secrets, but what we forget is that they come with their own weights, heavy as millstones, and if you aren’t careful this weight can crush you.”
― Claire McGowan, What You Did

“You are made of dreams and this world is not for you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“tamquam alter idem”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Have you heard of the legends of sleeping kings? The legends that heroes like Llewellyn and Glendower and Arthur aren’t really dead, but are instead sleeping in tombs, waiting to be woken?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I always wanted an eccentric daughter . I just never realized how well my evil plans were working.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I'd wake up every morning and think, 'This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The front seat is for people who've never been kidnapped by bloody numpties. Jesus Christ, Baz.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Carry on, Simon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school.
"My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to her?" I asked.
"Because nobody knew where you came from, Simon! And you might be dangerous!"
"You have the worst survival instincts."
"Also, I felt sorry for you," she said. "You were holding your wand backwards.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I can tell she still finds me both loathsome and distasteful, but Rome wasn't built on mutual admiration.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“The way you were before… Simon Snow, there wasn’t a day when I believed we’d both live through it.“
“Though what?”
“Life. You were the sun, and I was crashing into you. I’d wake up every morning and think, ‘This will end in flames.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Go on, then," he says. "Carry on, Simon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I loved you before I met you, and I loved you the moment I held you. And I never meant to leave you so soon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“(Because I'm disturbed. Ask anyone.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“That breaks my heart, to think that you can't remember a world without the Humdrum. I worry that your generation will just acclimate to it. That you won't see the necessity of fighting back.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“And sometimes she just wants to rage against the machine-even if she's not exactly sure where the machine is or how to properly rage at it.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I bloody well should marry Wellbelove. My father would love it.
Marry her. Give her the keys to whatever she wants keys to. The find a thousand men who look exactly like Simon bloody Snow and break each of their hearts in a different way.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“He's not a monster. He's just a villain.
He's not a villain. He's just a boy.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On