Alyse Gardner > Alyse's Quotes

“Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“do it from the heart or not at all.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.'
Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest.
Feel for yourself.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“Death will be like that. We will be forever recognizing people we have never met.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

“But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own...bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“No matter what else, we have love. Always love.”
― P.C. Cast, Hidden

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“It is my nature to join in love, not hate.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Choice

“I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.”
― Tamora Pierce

“I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.”
― Tamora Pierce

“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”
― Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess

“Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

“It's not just children who need heroes.”
― Tamora Pierce

“There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.”
― Tamora Pierce, Trickster's Queen

“My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!”
― Tamora Pierce, Squire

“Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.”
― Tamora Pierce