Amanda Martinez > Amanda's Quotes

“Laurie," he said quietly. Not a question, or an opening to saying anything else. A full sentence in itself.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

“We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“There is something just as inevitable as death. And that is life.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“There is a difference between knowing the path and
walking the path.”
― Genki Kawamura, If Cats Disappeared from the World

“His brain sits before its cash register again, charging him for old shames as if he has not paid before”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

“Nasci assim, rachada. Inesquadrinhável. Minha loucura é meu corpo em conflito.”
― Carla Madeira, A natureza da mordida

“Quando a gente faz o mal, sabe. O mal não é coisa de distraído. Embora a dor a gente possa provocar até dormindo.”
― Carla Madeira, A Natureza da Mordida

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What is in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title,
Romeo, Doth thy name!
And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.”
― William Shakespeare

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“What's done cannot be undone.”
― William Shakespeare , Macbeth

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II