Anne > Anne's Quotes

“Stories exist in all worlds. They are immutable. Like gold.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Reading books doesn’t even make someone intelligent. You’re reading a book right now and you’re dumb as hell.”
― Trixie Mattel, Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood

“I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“There is no banquet too abundant for a starving man.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“About how Mother Nature is not kind, but she is balanced. Every single one of us, from amoeba to blue whale to the tenacious bloom that dares to dream of tomorrow, have their own destiny-fulfilling journey as long as their minds and hearts are open. And how we are all connected by a web that looks gossamer but is stronger than a chain-link fence. And though Nature is tough, she is always conspiring for your success, encouraging you to evolve. You can even hear her if you listen carefully.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“The purest Marxists are always men. Calamity comes too easily to women. Our lives can come apart in a single gesture, a rogue wave. And money? Money is the rock we cling to when the current would seize us.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“You can't just-'
The snake inside Alex stopped twitching and uncoiled. She curled her hand into the sleeve of her coat and slammed it through the glass case where they kept their little trinkets. Salome and Dawes shrieked. They both took another step back.
'I know you're used to dealing with people who can't just, but I can, so give me the key to the temple room and let's get square so we can forget all about this.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“And we protect The Pack from the hunters, we will fall in love with each moment, singing to the moon that has loved us since we were stars.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Bald eagles are majestic as fuck.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Jude, you can't really think I don't know it's you. I knew you from the moment you walked into the brugh.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Trust it turned out, was a very beautiful and fragile thing with a taste like wild raspberries and experienced only by the very brave.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“And yet I felt a tickling cognizance, dewdrops beading in my mind. Perhaps I'd always known, always been aware that there is more to be seen than what is in front of me. Perhaps I'd deliberately chosen not to acknowledge the story a flower tells or the particular vibration of rocks. When the mole spoke of The Mother Trees, I didn't question him because somewhere deep down, below feather and skin and bleached bone, I knew.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“You know so much, Onida."
"I have nine brains—which never stop growing—three hearts, and I can regenerate my arms; but mostly, it's because I'm female." Female. Well, shit. Admittedly, I had limited knowledge of them, but they had always seemed omniscient and formidable to me.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Her name translated as "Survivor," but she told me she didn't like it much. I asked her why and she said because she is a female and all females are survivors so it was massively redundant.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“When you have the power to stand up to oppression, you must.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“And though Nature is tough, she is always conspiring for your success, encouraging you to evolve. You can even hear her if you listen carefully.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“I feel like a constellation of wounds, held together with string and stubbornness.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Tell me what I must slay, what I must steal, tell me the riddle I must solve or the hag I must trick. Only tell me the way, and I will do it, no matter the danger, no matter the hardship, no matter the cost.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I raise a plastic glass. “To family.”
“And Faerieland,” says Taryn, raising hers.
“And pizza,” says Oak.
“And stories,” says Heather.
“And new beginnings,” says Vivi.
Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. “And scheming great schemes.”
To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“They tried to kill me, Hellie,” she rasped as she slid into the dark. That means I get to try to kill them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“That was the problem with love. It was hard to unlearn, no matter how harsh the lesson.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent