Ben Ace > Ben's Quotes

“We’re raised to believe that if we do all the right things, the law will protect us. Reality is much harsher.”
― M.K. England, The Disasters

“I was a girl who would never exist in a fairy tale, not just because of the brown of my body but because of my heart, neither pure enough to be good nor cruel enough to be evil. I was a girl lost in the deep, narrow space between the two forms girls were allowed to take.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“there were two types of people in this world: those who belong to the soil and the good, rich earth, planting their seeds to blossom, and those who belong to the road and the endless horizons, carrying their home on their shoulders wherever they go.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”
― Taylor Swift

“That I was a boy, but it was not as simple as me wanting to be called he. That I liked being called he and him. But that I would've liked being called she and her sometimes, too, if it didn't let everyone settle into the assumption that I was a girl. I had never been a girl, would never be a girl...”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“There will always be two daughters. But we will always take one back”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“In the dark, my sister glowed, but in the dark, I was the dark itself. Blanca, bright and fair Blanca, was the moon and all its stars. I was just her background to shimmer against.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“Remember what I always told you."
I let my eyes fall shut. "I have teeth."
I opened my eyes in time to catch his nod.
"So use them," he said.”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“You two never could follow rules, could you?”
― Anna-Marie McLemore, Blanca & Roja

“Hesitation is the death of advantage.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Bad magic, Kell had called it.
No, thought Lila now. Clever magic.
And clever was more dangerous than bad any day of the week.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Her bank account was little more than lint and a prayer.”
― Laura Ambrose, A Hidden Hope

“So many words went through her head, but none of them were the right ones. It was like being stuck on the next plot point of a story. She’d lost the voice.”
― Laura Ambrose, A Hidden Hope

“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Pero, tú no eres fácil.”
You sure ain’t an easy one.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“My brother was born a soft whistle:
quiet, barely stirring the air, a gentle sound.
But I was born all the hurricane he needed
to lift - and drop- those that hurt him to the ground.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“....and my heart is one of Darwin's Finches, learning to fly.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Are you afraid of dying? Holland had asked him in the alley. And Kell was. Had always been, ever since he could remember. He feared not living, feared ceasing to exist. Lila's world may believe in Heaven and Hell, but his believed in dust. He was taught early that magic reclaiemd magic, and earth reclaimed earth, the two dividing when the body died, the person they had combined to be simply forfeit, lost. Nothing lated. Nothing remained.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Looking for trouble, he’d say. You’re gonna look till you find it. Trouble is the looker, she’d answer. It keeps looking till it finds you. Might as well find it first.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Do you know what makes you weak?” said Holland. “You’ve never had to be strong. You’ve never had to try. You’ve never had to fight. And you’ve certainly never had to fight for your life.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The word pain does too much work, you know? It’s like sorry, which really shouldn’t have to carry both “I sympathize” and “this is all my fault.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“Gemma stood in there, one small girl in an open space, but she filled it; she belonged.”
― Kayla Whaley, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens