Catherine Beach > Catherine's Quotes

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“think you hate me because… I’m someone you can hate. I’m here, I’m handy. But what you really hate is the world.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Nothing to do but follow your crazy,”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

“A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“Most do not wish to hear what can be heard so easily, and therefore they deny that they hear anything at all.”
― Jesse Jacobs, Safari Honeymoon

“Violence, remember it's only the body that's fragile. You are unbreakable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Captivity is always captivity, no matter how gentle the jailer.”
― John Hargrove, Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish

“Don’t give me that shit. I’ve seen what you have on your smutty bookshelf.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“Though I’d never recommend visiting Japan in August unless you want to experience what it feels like to be a rotisserie chicken,”
― Chris Broad, Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

“Doctors. You’ll excuse me, I hope, from your very erudite conversation on the long-term value of cock.”
― James S.A. Corey, How It Unfolds

“But the girl has something the others do not: a questionable amount of soul.
And a questionable amount of soul is a dangerous things. It makes people unpredictable, it can send them out in the darkness to seek things that others would never dare. It can keep the flame burning, long after it was supposed to go out.”
― Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Only you can decide what breaks you, Cursebreaker. Only you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin