Ash > Ash's Quotes

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”
― Tyra Banks

“I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.”
― Laurie R. King

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“Hello, luv," he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm...interrupting.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“You need a man who knows and understands you, Alyssa. Both sides of you. A partner.” He pulls my necklaces—and me—closer. “One who’s your equal in every way.” The scent of licorice fills my nose; he must’ve been smoking his hookah before I arrived. My body betrays me, remembering what those tobacco-laced kisses taste lik”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“I hate you."
"Only because of the way I make you feel."
My fingernails eat into my palms. "Only because you bring out the worst in me."
"Oh no, luv. I bring out the life in you.”
― A.G. Howard, Splintered

“He puts it on, and his gaze locks to mine. His jewels flicker between passion and defiance—an evocative and intimidating combination. “Fair warning, I intend to make good use of that time. I will be gentle, but I will not be a gentleman. You will be the center of my world. I’ll show you the wonders of Wonderland, and when you’re drunk on the beauty and chaos that your heart so yearns to know, I will take you under my wings and make you forget the human realm ever existed. You’ll never want to leave Wonderland or me again.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“It's too easy, when you have unharnessed power at your fingertips to forget you're not invincible. To make rash decisions that can affect your whole future.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.”
― Sara Shepard, Heartless

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”
― Al Pacino

“Eyes aren't good liars.”
― Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember

“Liars are exhausting people.”
― Walter Kirn, Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
― Paula Poundstone

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“I sighed and closed my eyes, thumping my head against the bookcase. You take biology? Oh yeah, Franny. What a great fucking pick-up line.”
― Tahlie Purvis, The Boy At The Back Of The Class

“I smiled a little when I saw Tyler stood there,dark jeans and a white button down shirt.
God I hope it rained tonight.”
― Tahlie Purvis, The Boy At The Back Of The Class

“This is coke.''Ethan rolled his eyes and frowned.
''Coke a cola?”
― Tahlie Purvis, The Boy At The Back Of The Class

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far