Shawn > Shawn's Quotes

“The God who made the moon and the stars and the mountains and the oceans, the Creator who did all of those things, believed that you and your baby were meant to be a pair. That doesn’t mean you’re going to be a perfect fit. That doesn’t mean you won’t make mistakes. It does mean that you need not fear failure because you can’t fail a job you were created to do.”
― Rachel Hollis, Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are so You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be

“…he’d subsumed a whole new identity. Into each world he went, he became someone slightly new to appeal to the Oliver of that place: sculpting himself into a key that fit into the hole in every Oliver’s heart.”
― Chuck Wendig, The Book of Accidents

“Life’s fucked up. It just is. It’s got ups and downs and I say it’s worse not appreciating the good things, because then what’s the point? It’s like the Native Americans used to say, right? Gotta use all of the buffalo. Life is a whole damn animal, and you can’t waste any part of it.”
― Chuck Wendig, The Book of Accidents

“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally, the satisfaction of having everything explained to you in a way that makes you kick yourself because you hadn't seen it from the start.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“There are some relationships that succeed only because they are impossible, that actually need unhappiness to continue.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“grief is love made homeless,”
― Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

“She'd been swallowed up in her own pain for so many years that she didn't notice his until it was too late.”
― Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

“Hess had long thought of death with indifference. Not because he hated life, but because existence was painful.”
― Søren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man

“Café Mortel, an opportunity to discuss one’s mortality over tea and cake.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Word is Murder

“You never realise how fragile everything is until it breaks. And that day it was all smashed.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The Word is Murder