Molly > Molly's Quotes

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“What you're looking at matters, but not as much as how you're looking or who you're looking with”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Fear of the thing,” Maher murmurs, more to himself than to Omeir, “will be more powerful than the thing itself.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Before she turns fourteen, every person she knows will be either enslaved or dead.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“strange how suffering can look beautiful if you get far enough away”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. ”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Children ceased to be children when you put a sword in their hands. When you taught them to fight a war, then you armed them and put them on the front lines, they were not children anymore. They were soldiers.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Sometimes, books just take us away for a little while, and return us to our place with a new perspective.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“I guess books say different things to different people.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Books always change as the person who reads them changes too.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“It’s almost like I’m coming home. Not to a place, necessarily, but to a feeling. To a possibility of more. And that completely and utterly terrifies me.”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“All marriage, just like all countries, have conflict. Sometimes patriotism is strong enough to overcome it - weighing what is shared against what could be lost - but sometimes the conflict highlights that the country itself was founded on unsteady ground”
― Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

“Grace costs you nothing”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“When you don't care, everything's on your terms. They can take it or leave it. It doesn't matter to you, so ask for whatever the hell you want.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“I haven’t been home in years, but I feel that way with you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“Destiny could also be a choice, she’d realized. To believe or not, to be vulnerable or not, to go all in or not.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Peace was like any high. It couldn't last. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House