Marta Silva > Marta'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

“Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.”
― Christopher Markus

“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

It did not end well.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“Laurent could inspire homicidal tendencies simply by breathing.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.”
― Ed Sheeran

“If someone tells you to change yourself, tell them to go fuck themselves.”
― Ed Sheeran

“I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet”
― Ed Sheeran , Ed Sheeran: +

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“After all, words are what remain when all the deeds have been done. Words can shatter faith; start a war; change the course of history. A story can make your heart beat faster; topple walls; scale mountains - hey, a story can even raise the dead. And that's why the King of Stories ended up being the King of the gods; because writing history and making history are only the breadth of a page apart.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
No one's immune to bribery.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Sticks and stones may break my bones’, as they say in the Middle Worlds, but with the right words you can build a world and make yourself the king of it.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side?
Look away.”
― Joanne M. Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“From this I think we can all conclude that the cow was the primary instigator of everything that followed - war, Tribulation, the End of the Worlds. Lesson One: never trust a rumiant.”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki

“There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it).”
― Joanne Harris, The Gospel of Loki