Miriam Bates > Miriam's Quotes

“Take off that damned corset. We're going out to face down a horde, not to a ball."
"It's isn't a full corset; it's a half corset. It's the newest style. Besides Jane, the day I cannot take down a few shamblers wearing something fashionable is the day I turn in my rifle.”
― Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“Nothing is more terrifying to evil than joy.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“What is it to know that people will come searching for you? Everything.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“How did anybody say goodbye to someone they loved? But that was what the world demanded, wasn’t it? Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes. How could anyone bear it?”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“To be brave is to not turn away. To be brave is to go forward. To be brave is to love.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“With the exception of Virgil, that's how the Salinas family was - big personalities that bubbled over like pots of soup. Virgil felt like unbuttered toast standing next to them.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“Don't avoid the question just because you don't want to think of an answer.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“The first words of a new book are so delicious—like the first taste of a cookie fresh from the oven and not yet properly cooled.”
― Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

“Edmund took in the boy's mended jacket, the eyes underlined in shadows, the skin above his upper lip chapped raw from a dripping nose gone unattended, and saw the sort of hunger whose endless digs a pit in a person. Being eleven, Edmund wouldn't have put it quite in those words, but he recognized it nonetheless.”
― Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon

“I can’t transform the world, Jamie. The world’s too big and too messy and too stubborn.”
“Who said anything about transforming the world?” He shrugged. “What about just making it a little better? And then a little better? And then a little more, until, one day, maybe long after we’re gone, it has transformed?”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“Jamie had said that it was a leap of faith to love people and to let yourself be loved. It was closing your eyes and stepping off a ledge into nothing and trusting that you'd fly instead of plummet to your tragic and poetic demise.”
― Sangu Mandanna, The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

“The majestic shape of the mountains silhouetted against violet skies, the golden glow of the sun rising slowly on the horizon so it shone like butter against the ice. It was beyond the edge of the world - beyond the edge of anything April had ever experienced in her life. It was so huge and so colossal that it stole the breath from her throat and layer by layer, stripped away all the parts that had ever made her doubt herself.”
― Hannah Gold

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It's OK now because I know better who I am.
And I understand who I am is OK.”
― John Schu, Louder Than Hunger

“Light, I see you; I can feel your warmth.”
― John Schu, Louder Than Hunger

“It was easy to get everyone on board with driving out difference when you started with something like vampires. Easy to dehumanize them, right? That's the stuff I grew up being taught - that it doesn't matter who it starts with, hate is hungry, and if you don't do something to stop it, it eats everyone.”
― Deke Moulton, Don't Want to Be Your Monster

“No one should have to turn themselves into an attraction so they can keep living where they've always lived.”
― Deke Moulton, Don't Want to Be Your Monster

“We let them tell us vampires were the problem, and if we'd just get rid of them, the world would be totally better. But then they said wait, it's not really vampires, it's the Jews. And then it's not really the Jews, it's this group. Or that group. Or immigrants. Every time the world doesn't get better, they just draw a new line between who's good and an entire group of people who are suddenly 'monsters.' And we all get so scared that there's a new monster in our midst, don't we? So scared that we rush to join the side of those who would 'protect' us from the monsters that they themselves invented.
I'm just staying the stuff that hurt your mom is the same stuff that hurt my people is the same stuff that wiped out the vampires, and if you don't do anything about it, eventually that line's going to be drawn to keep you out.”
― Deke Moulton, Don't Want to Be Your Monster

“The pain rose up from somewhere she didn't even know existed. It rocketed up like a wave and rolled over her like thunder. There was a rip somewhere in the chasm of the universe. Something splintering into a thousand trillion pieces. And she knew that however hard she searched, she would never be able to find them all again.”
― Hannah Gold, The Last Bear

“She raced to his side, dropping to her knees in a huge whoosh, and threw her arms around his neck. Like an excitable puppy, he whimpered and squirmed and licked her face. His bright chocolate eyes drank her up and made her tummy all gooey. She buried her face in his soft, downy fur and together they clung on.”
― Hannah Gold, The Last Bear

“The days continued to pass, marked only with the iridescent shine of happiness. There was no dusk, and there was no dawn. Even her watch stopped - it was something to do with being so close to the North Pole. And with nothing to tell the time, day blended into night and night blended into day. Time was no longer hands on a clock but something endless, infinite and magical.
It was summer.
And it was the best summer.”
― Hannah Gold, The Last Bear

“And when you live from your heart, it's impossible to ever tell a lie.”
― Hannah Gold, The Last Bear

“When her roar finally came, bouncing and skipping across the waves, it landed right at his feet. He stood for a moment and allowed the roar to envelop him in one last April-sized hug. It was the biggest, best hug of all.”
― Hannah Gold, The Last Bear

“Have a pancake. It'll make everything better," Baxter said, holding out a plate. Pendleton took it with a look that said it did not, in fact, everything better, but he wasn't going to turn down free pancakes.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, Extra Normal

“Delving into a freaky abandoned house probably owned by monsters? Sure, fine. Lie to an authority figure? Time to panic.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, Extra Normal

“The doll looked at her with rapt attention. Charlie searched for signs of intelligence behind her eyes and got only the impression of an empty hallway and the distant tones of a doorbell.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, Extra Normal

“The majestic shape of the mountains silhouetted against violet skies, the golden glow of the sun rising slowly on the horizon so it shone like butter against the ice. It was beyond the edge of the world - beyond the edge of anything April had ever experienced in her life. It was so huge and so colossal that it stole the breath from her throat and layer by layer, stripped away all the parts that had ever made her doubt herself.”
― Hannah Gold, Finding Bear

“A real leader has the courage to speak up for change even if other people disagree.”
― Hannah Gold, Finding Bear

“I'm just telling it like it is.'
'No. You're telling it as you think it is.”
― Lene Kaaberbøl, Ildprøven