Tiffany M > Tiffany's Quotes

“The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

“Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”
― Harlan Ellison

“No child chooses the circumstances of their birth. Rich parents, poor parents, high and low. We are all handed the starting point. What you make of every step thereafter is what defines your life.”
― Elise Kova, Vortex Chronicles: The Complete Series

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
― Harlan Ellison

“People don’t remember the mistake itself; they remember the grace with which a person handled it.”
― Raye Wagner, Black Crown

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. —Sarah Williams, “The Old Astronomer”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine

“Innocence is nothing but a ceremony, after all. So strange that you people venerate it the way you do. What other world celebrates not knowing anything about how life really works?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“The trouble with trouble is it always starts out as fun.”
― Jillian Dodd, That Boy

“One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That’s one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”
― Raven Kennedy, Glow

“Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing through the lid of your glass coffin? Did the New York strip steak you attacked at dinner suddenly show a mouth filled with needle-sharp teeth, and did it snap off the end of your fork, the last solid-gold fork from the set Anastasia pressed into your hands as they took her away to be shot? Is the slab under your apartment building moaning that it cannot stand the weight on its back a moment longer, and is the building stretching and creaking? Did a good friend betray you today, or did that good friend merely keep silent and fail to come to your aid? Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand. This is the hour that stretches. Djan karet. We are the cavalry. We're here. Put away the pills. We'll get you through this bloody night. Next time, it'll be your turn to help us.
"Eidolons" (1988)”
― Harlan Ellison

“we need a certain level of cynicism for society to function properly. If people thought they had real power to change things, if they truly believed in democracy, everyone would take to the streets, advocate, militate for everything. It happens from time to time. Thirty thousand people will block traffic to march for a cause, but they do it believing that the other side couldn’t possibly feel justified in doing the same thing. What if they did? What if thirty thousand people who believe in one thing marched at the very same time as those who believe in the exact opposite? What if it happened every single day? People who care about other things would also want to be heard. They’d need to scream louder. They’d need their disruption to be more…disruptive. People are compliant because they don’t expect the system to be fair. If they did, if they thought that was even possible, we’d live in chaos, anarchy. We need apathy, he said, or we’ll end up killing each other on the streets”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human

“You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Knock. Knock.” Static and then a woman’s voice said, “Who’s there?” Kat raised a brow at me, and I shrugged. “The interrupting cow,” Paris said, glancing at Luc, who shook his head. From the intercom, “The inter—?” “Moooooo!” Paris”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin

“When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.”
― Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor

“I want Holly to experience life. To take away the blinders she has so assiduously relied on. I think you're just the type of person to show her what she doesn't know and doesn't want to know. My niece is innocent in so many ways, and there comes a time in a woman's life when innocence is merely a euphemism for ignorance.”
― Kresley Cole, Dark Desires After Dusk

“Fate whispers to the warrior, “You cannot withstand the storm.” The warrior whispers back, “I am the storm.” -Anonymous author”
― Amelia Hutchins, Playing with Monsters

“May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face. And may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.”
― George Jung, Blow by Blow

“Robert Kennedy said, ‘There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.”
― Kennedy Ryan, The Rebel King

“Prove them all wrong. Blaze your own trail. Girl, woman, they’ll never give you the world. You have to make your own.”
― Kennedy Ryan, The Rebel King

“close only counts in hand-grenades and horseshoes.”
― Karen Marie Moning, The Fever Series

“That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“You can fall in love again; most people do—but you can never replace a sister.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feverborn