Sam > Sam's Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.”
― Hayao Miyazaki, もののけ姫 [Mononoke hime]

“When snow melts, what does it become?'
It becomes water, of course'
Wrong! It becomes spring!”
― Natsuki Takaya

“I love the stars.
Because they can't say anything.
I love the stars.
Because they do not judge anyone.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 21

“Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.”
― veronica rossi, Through the Ever Night

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.”
― Veronica Rossi, Through the Ever Night

“Aria... everyone feels lost and low. It's how a person acts that makes them different”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“I... There was a time when I stopped talking. Just like you. My reasons were a little bit different, but I think the feelings of being ashamed of myself and hating myself are the same. Here, it says to "like yourself." What does that mean? Good things- how are you supposed to find them? I only know things that I hate about myself. Because that's all I know, I hate myself. But even if you force yourself to find good things, it feels so empty. It doesn't work that way. People like your teacher just don't get it. I think when you hear someone say they like you, for the first time, then you can begin to like yourself. I think when someone accepts you, for the first time, you feel like you can forgive yourself a little. You can begin to face your fears with courage.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry...be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world...I don't know what is!”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Try a little harder to be a little better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“You're trying to find it. You're probably trying to find- the reason that you live- all by yourself. Because...because, in reality, there aren't any people who are born with reasons to live. I think that...that everyone has to find their reason to live. A reason to live. A reason to say that it's okay to be here. A reason for being. Everyone must find out and then decide. Maybe in a dream, or in a job, or in a person. "The reason" you find might be unclear, uncertain, and unstable. Even though you may lose it, I want to have a reason for as long as I live. I also want one. And then, if it's possible, I want to find it in somebody's heart. I want to be able to live for someone. I hope that someday, someone would tell me, 'You can think of it that way.' At times I want to give up, but I try my best. That's why...that's why it's okay, for sure, to be shameless. Because if you lead a bold life, someday you might meet someone with whom you'll want to eat takoyaki together.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy. ”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger