Esther > Esther's Quotes

“Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“It’s not something you can control, Mare,” he replies, still standing so far away. “We can’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Glass Sword

“The kiss is sweeter than sin and fiercer than temptation. I am not gentle, I am not kind; I am rough and wild and savage.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn't it?" I say quietly I don't even know if he hears me, but my words are as much for myself as for him. "It's everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can't go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you don't want to go on because it's easier to give up than to get hurt again.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“He still has the most unusually blue eyes I've ever seen. Dark and deep and drenched in passion. I always wondered what it'd be like to see the world through such a beautiful lens. I wondered if your eye color meant you saw the world differently.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You will get lost.
You will be afraid
You will fail
You will fight
You will remember
And without doubt:
You will find your way home.”
― Peter Begler, The Fearless Travelers' Guide to Wicked Places

“I looked him straight in the eye. "What was it your father used to say?" Hans said nothing. He turned his head away. "What's the use of running, if we are on the wrong road?”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“Practice love, compassion and forgiveness. Anger is nothing but an anchor that keeps you from moving forward.”
― Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life

“Iemand zei eens dat op het moment dat je erbij stilstaat om te bedenken of je van iemand houdt of niet, je dan al bent opgehouden met voor altijd van hem te houden.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― pleasefindthis

“You can't always keep your loved ones with you. You can't always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you'll always be at home.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Happy and sad, elated and miserable, secure and afraid, loved and denied, patient and angry, peaceful and wild, complete and empty...all of it. I would feel everything. It would all be mine.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

“I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Georgie was extra. She was the fourth wheel. (On something that only needed three wheels. The fourth wheel on a tricycle.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

“Mom hooked me up to a portable tank and then reminded me I had class. "Did that boy give it to you?" she asked out of nowhere.
"By it, do you mean herpes?"
"You are too much," Mom said. "The book, Hazel. I mean the book."
"Yeah, he gave me the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Her bare feet pounded the carpet as she ran... and his heart shattered more with each step.”
― Alisa Woods, Jaxson

“I could feel my insides sink. My knees too. So I sat on the ground, against the wall, letting it support me. I thought I knew what heartbreak felt like. I thought heartbreak was me, standing alone at the prom. That was nothing. This, this was heartbreak. The pain in your chest, the ache behind your eyes. The knowing that things will never be the same again. It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”
― Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

“Bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what’s possible.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Natasha doesn't say what she suspects. That meant to be doesn't have to mean forever.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“You know, without your cloak of burning rage, you almost look like a girl," he teases with a wink at me.”
― Kayla Krantz, The Council

“The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.”
― Kayla Krantz, The Council

“There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.”
― Kayla Krantz, The Council

“People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.”
― Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Hex

“But that's the thing about truth - even when you think you know it, it can still sneak up behind you and knock you down.”
― Rachel Bateman, Someone Else's Summer

“Why do superheroes wear capes? His brother's voice.
To show how cape-able they are? His own childhood voice.”
― Lokesh Sharma

“Are you having a midlife crisis?" Miriam asked.
"I'm eighteen."
"I know. But you've always been advanced.”
― J.C. Geiger, Wildman

“Stories matter. The stories we tell about each other. The stories you end up telling yourself.”
― J.C. Geiger, Wildman