Emily > Emily's Quotes

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Regret is just perfectionism plus time.”
― B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

“I was reading.”
― Ghandi

“It's nice of you to say I'm your best friend."

"You are my best friend, dummy."

"Really? You are my best friend. But I always assumed that somebody else was your best friend, and I was totally okay with that. You don't have to say that I'm your best friend just to make me feel good."

"You're so lame."

"That's why I figured somebody else was your best friend.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest.”
― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

“When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?”
― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

“In a world where you can’t open your eyes, isn’t a blindfold all you could ever hope for?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“It isn’t fair to be the kind of creature who is able to love but unable to stay.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“I never worked out how to be relied upon and also free.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“Saving specific animals purely on the basis of what they offer humanity may be practical, but wasn’t this attitude the problem to begin with? Our overwhelming, annihilating selfishness?”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations