Quotes - nihil (fionamcmurrey) Showing 1-30 of 542

#1

“All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

#2

“Wherever this shadowed path might lead, we were both irrevocably committed to follow it to the end.”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

tags: erik, phantom

13 likes

#3

“A dark and towering shadow, rising like the phoenix from the ashes...malevolent...omnipotent...The Phantom of the Opera!”
― Susan Kay, Phantom

tags: gothic, malevolent, omnipotent, phantom-of-the-opera, susan-kay

9 likes

#4

“Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could look inside ourselves we would see via the patterns of neurons some of the important things that had happened to us in our lifetimes?”
― Evelyn Lau, Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

1299 likes

#5

“Why is he scared of the dark?"

I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is".”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

tags: fantasy, romance, young-adult

290 likes

#6

“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

tags: kindness, truth

244 likes

#7

“Don’t look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.”
― Rosamund Hodge , Cruel Beauty

120 likes

#8

“From nothing into nothing how swiftly we return.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

tags: death

50 likes

#9

“Water is born from the death of air, earth from the death of water, fire from the death of earth, air from the death of fire.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

31 likes

#10

“But you know what you are, and what you deserve. You lie to me but not to yourself. That's why I love you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

75 likes

#11

“Though mountains melt and oceans burn,

The gifts of love shall still return.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

tags: love, quotes

52 likes

#12

“Study the sky, but do not love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our capture.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

21 likes

#13

“Though changed I rise again the same”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

19 likes

#14

“It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

16 likes

#15

“The better to kill me in my sleep?” “It would be rude to wake you first.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

42 likes

#16

“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Ruth Rendell, A Judgement in Stone

tags: books, escapism, life, reading

247 likes

#17

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: friends, friendship

953 likes

#18

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

827 likes

#19

“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: book-lover

587 likes

#20

“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: afraid, bravery, common-sense, fear, idiots, scared

603 likes

#21

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

452 likes

#22

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: silence

359 likes

#23

“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

318 likes

#24

“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: contrarian

194 likes

#25

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: dreaming

261 likes

#26

“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: loneliness

194 likes

#27

“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

107 likes

#28

“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: beliefs

97 likes

#29

“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

92 likes

#30

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

98 likes

nihil > nihil's Quotes

Tags From nihil’s Quotes