Katie West > Katie's Quotes

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
― richard siken

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“Yeah. Calm down. Two of the most useless words in the English language.”
― Lili St. Crow, Betrayals

“Swimming was the last thing I wanted to do. Drowning him? Maybe.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“My beautiful, my Isobel. My Love. You ask me to wait. And so I wait.
For all of this, I know, is but a dream.
And when, in sleep, at last we wake,
I will see you again.”
― Kelly Creagh, Nevermore

“This is the first letter I have ever written. That a few marks on this piece of paper can bring you my heart in my absence is a great magic. Life is a constant source of wonder.”
― Clay Griffith

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“Try to live so that you can always tell the truth.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
― W.P. Kinsella

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
― Walt Disney

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

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night