Sel > Sel's Quotes

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victmized. Like the world is so unfair.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Katsa didn't think a person should thank her for not causing pain. Causing joy was worthy of thanks, and causing pain worthy of disgust. Causing neither was neither, it was nothing, and nothing didn't warrant thanks.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”
― Tahereh Mafi

“I’ll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them.
She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.
She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I did something brave, then. Or stupid. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“But when everyone tells you you're crazy and no one believes you when you swear you aren't, a small part of you will always wonder if they're right.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“How long do you want me?" he asked.
How long can I have you? I thought.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“Noah acted like he felt nothing because he felt everything. He seemed not to care because he cared too much.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“People can be cruelest to those they love.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

“Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“I haven’t started counting yet. I wonder if it’s just me or if it’s like that for everybody; that every time someone dies you start counting how much time has passed since they’ve been gone. First you count it in minutes, then in hours. You count in days, then weeks, then months. Then one day you realize that you aren’t counting anymore, and you don’t even know when you stopped. That’s the moment they’re gone.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“My mother's hope is a weapon.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Depends on how badly you want it. It's worth whatever you're willing to pay for it.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“In memory of my father, because he said so”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition
it is.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns