Khara > Khara's Quotes

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
― Nicholson Baker

“When a man takes up arms, he does so for many reasons. Sometimes to punish, sometimes to intimidate or frighten. But when a woman picks up a weapon, she means to kill.”
― Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
― Juan Rulfo

“...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Because I have to admit: there's something really badass about truly, honestly not caring what people think about you.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“The episodes were multiplying, and nothing he did seemed to make a difference. He'd tried avoiding his power, on the theory that it was a kind of battery, one that charged with use. When that didn't work, Victor changed tactics, and tried using his power more, on the theory that perhaps it was a charge he had to diffuse. But that approach yielded the same results--again the buzz grew louder, again it became physical, again Victor died.”
― V. E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Most EOs are the result of accidents," he said, studying the snow. "But Eli and I were different. We set out to find a way to effect the change. Incidentally, it's remarkably difficult to do. Dying with intent, reviving with control. Finding a way to end a life but keep it in arm's reach, and all without rendering the body unusable. On top of that, you need a method that strips enough control from the subject to make them afraid, because you need the chemical properties induced by fear and adrenaline to trigger a somatic change.”
― V. E. Schwab, Vengeful

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“For every woman who has been told to sit down and be quiet... And who stood up anyway.”
― Tracy Banghart, Grace and Fury

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“I can’t believe that asshole actually tried to blame you. I’d like to knock his teeth down his throat and blame him for not wearing a helmet. I need you to know that what he said was bullshit.”
― Ashley Hawthorne, Deliver Me

“People that hide their cruelty behind a mask of piety are even more terrible than the ones that are openly evil. You don’t see them coming until it’s too late, and even when they hurt you, they blame you for it.”
― Ashley Hawthorne, Deliver Me

“I know how society teaches us to be soft and dull and compliant, but you will not be any of those things, do you understand? Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us. Those are the rules for wearing this mask.”
― Adalyn Grace, Belladonna