Lydia Kirk > Lydia's Quotes

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

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

“When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings.”
― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I like myself better when I'm with you.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
― Maud Casey

“عندما تستيقظ من نومك فلا تقفز من سريرك كأن أحداً عضك، فكر قبل كل شيء بما حلمت به في نومك.”
― رسول حمزاتوف, بلدي

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a works that was anything but. Once you realize this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“Demon pox, oh demon pox
Just how is it acquired?
One must go down to the bad part of town
Until one is very tired.
Demon pox, oh demon pox, I had it all along—
Not the pox, you foolish blocks,
I mean this very song—
For I was right, and you were wrong!"

"Will!" Charlotte shouted over the noise, "Have you LOST YOUR MIND? CEASE THAT INFERNAL RACKET! Jem—"
Jem, rising to his feet, clapped his hands over Will's mouth. "Do you promise to be quiet?" he hissed into his friend's ear.
Will nodded, blue eyes blazing. Tessa was staring at him in amazement; they all were. She had seen Will many things—amused, bitter, condescending, angry, pitying—but never giddy before.
Jem let him go. "All right, then."
Will slid to the floor, his back against the armchair, and threw up his arms. "A demon pox on all your houses!" he announced, and yawned.
"Oh, God, weeks of pox jokes," said Jem. "We're in for it now.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World