Ciera > Ciera's Quotes

“Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“I believe the princess term is fainted,” said Thorne.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Scars, scars. She was coming to have so many. She wondered if it was wrong to be proud of them.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“Who’s Marilyn Monroe?” “Sex!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“He wrote, You’re being crazy.     You’re going to catch a cold. I already have a cold. You are going to catch a colder.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don’t know very much about the birds and the bees.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“The Velmas of the world do not intern at CNN, hope to be accepted at Columbia J-School after graduating NYU with honors, and go on to win Pulitzer Prizes by getting bogged down in relationship drama. That’s a problem for the Daphnes of the world. Daphne, you bitch, you can’t even drive the damn van.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“That’s funny. I’ve always liked Naomi’s version of me the best. I’m always much more interesting when she talks about me.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“But it kept being out there, and the thing was, even though I really liked her as a person, I didn’t really think I liked her as a girl, because when you like a girl, there’s this ignition—you can feel it—and with her, there wasn’t any ignition, just conversation and hanging out and shit.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“The mosh pit will reveal all the answers. The mosh pit never lies.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Maybe it isn’t that we’re supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we’re the pieces.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“What’s of more concern: If I don’t shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever be able to just be.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Feelings like guilt and anxiety and missing people should have a certain life span.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Celestial Globe

“I wish I could teach you how to live happily ever after, Petra,” she said, “but that is something you will have to learn on your own.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Celestial Globe

“death must be a fascinating experience, else why would everyone do it?”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Jewel of the Kalderash

“There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children,” Mark promised.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight

“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Are those the forces that’ll consume us? Not living up to people’s expectations?” “Or worse, our own.” “You really think that?” “I don’t think. I know.”
― Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“[Art] must reflect the world in all its brutality and beauty, not in hopes of changing it but in the mean and selfish desire to not be enrolled in its lie, to not be coopted by the television dreams, to not ignore the great crimes all around us.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“We were coloreds or Negroes, and to call someone black was to invite a fistfight. But Malcolm remade the menace inherent in that name into something mystical--Black Power; Black Is Beautiful; It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy