Erica C > Erica's Quotes

“I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Another day. Get up and face it.”
― James Patterson , The Angel Experiment

“Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, The Testing

“Great. We're all bloody inspired.”
― Newt The Maze Runner by James Dashner

“No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“KILL ME!" And then Newt's eyes cleared, as if he'd gained one last trembling gasp of sanity, and his voice softened. "Please, Tommy. Please."
With his heart falling into a black abyss, Thomas pulled the trigger.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

“WICKED is good”
― James Dashner The Death Cure, The Maze Runner Trilogy

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“Everyone has something of beauty about them.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.”
― Lois Lowry, Son

“It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The day had a strange but comforting feel to it, like a rest between the end of one time and the beginning of another.”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

“just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Sometimes it’s hard to hear when we’ve done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.”
― Melissa Kantor, Maybe One Day