Alina > Alina's Quotes

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee.”
“Who’s Bruce Lee?”
“Who’s Bruce Lee?” Kenji asks, horrified. “Oh my God. We can’t even be friends anymore.”
“Why? Was he a friend of yours?”
“You know what,” he says, “just stop. Just—I can’t even talk to you right now.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“For so many years I lived in constant terror of myself. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree. I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind.

But finally, finally, I have learned to break free.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Because I want her.
Now.
Here.
Everywhere.
I want nothing between us.
I want her clothes off and the lights on and I want to study her. I want to unzip her out of this dress and take my time with every inch of her.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me

“Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe:

- Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible.

- Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass.”
― Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible

“She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag,
and right then and there, he fell in love."
-Animal Magnetism”
― Jill Shalvis

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Think: who has vans, huh? Soccer moms and serial killers.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“Everything is randomly connected.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“How now Mad Cow?”
― Libba Bray

“These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“The dark does not weep for itself because there is no light. Rather, it accepts that it is the dark.”
― Libba Bray, Going Bovine

“There is no greater power on this earth than story.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?”
― Libba Bray

“Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it”
― Libba Bray

“There is no greater power on this earth than story. People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense--words do.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin?”
― Libba Bray

“. . . chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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

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

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

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel