blife barnes > blife's Quotes

“And I ordered the cheesecake.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
― George R.R. Martin

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“In my head I know I've been in love before, but it doesn't feel like it. Being in love with you is better than the first time. It feels like the first time and the last time and the only time all at once.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly's lips against mine.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“We are the books we read and the things we love.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

“Words matter, in fact. They're not pointless, as you've suggested. If they were pointless, then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history. If they were just words, we wouldn't write songs or listen to them. We wouldn't beg to be read to as kids. If they were just words, then stories wouldn't have been around since before we could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words, people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, and stop aching because of them." (p. 210) (Henry Jones)”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, we wouldn't beg to be read to when we're kids. If they were just words, then they'd have no meaning and stories wouldn't have been around since before humans could write. We wouldn't have learned to write. If they were just words then people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, stop aching because of them, have sex, quite a lot of the time, because of them.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Sometimes science isn't enough. Sometimes you need the poets.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“A dry, bookless world. It's too bleak to even imagine.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I love lying here with you, under the books.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Love of the things that make you happy is steady too--books, words, music, art--these are lights that reappear in a broken universe.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Second hand books have a way of travelling, sure. But what travels forward can come back.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“The bookstore is a building, but it's not only the building. It is the books inside. People are not only their bodies. And if there is no hope of saving the things we love in their original form, we must save them however we can.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“And I love you. I love that you read. I love that you love secondhand books. I love pretty much everything about you,”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I love books down to the full stops. I love them in a way that’s beyond logic and reason. That’s just the way it is. I love them the way those people in the Letter Library love them. It’s not enough to read, I want to talk through the pages to get to the other side, to get to the person who read them before me. I want to spend my life hunting them, reading them, selling them. I want to serve customers and put the right book in their hands. I want it all. And I want it to go on forever. And if it can’t last then I want to want it right up to the very final second. And I want a girl who wants me the same way. Dust and all.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“He smells the same—peppermint and cedar and a hint of old books.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I don’t think you can date a letter like this. A love letter, by definition, should be timeless or what’s the point? I love you, but only for that moment and then my love expires? What’s the universe’s problem with forever? It lets the geese get away with it.’

‘The geese?’ Rachel asks.

‘They mate forever.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Life is the big scheme; death is the little one at the end.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue