Erica Alexander > Erica's Quotes

“Until you start standing up for yourself, I’m going to keep defending you.”
― Kata Čuić, First and Goal

“You're getting your weird all over me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“I'd learned a long time ago that one of the finest weapons in my arsenal was my ability to invade personal space”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren't able to burn.”
― Tish Thawer, The Witches of BlackBrook

“She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“I pray that God, the Universe, Fate or whoever is out there watching had a plan all along, and this is not the final chapter but the first one, and all that I lived up to this point was just the prequel for an amazing adventure. I hope that adventure will always include you.”
― Erica Alexander

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“Sometimes hope is a dragon. Sometimes hope is a butterfly with broken wings.”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“wish for you to know that even when I am not with you, I still am”
― Erica Alexander, Seventeen Wishes

“No baby blues for the professor. His eyes are whiskey colored, and I’m a little drunk gazing into”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“The thing about being born with an expiration date is you learn to appreciate life a little more than the average person. You pack a lot of living into your days. Shit”
― Erica Alexander, Seventeen Wishes

“No one has ever chosen me before. Not even myself.”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“Tommy trails next to me, and we walk in silence. Him with his stuff and me with my monsters. When I was a kid, I used to name them. Hungry Harry. Cold Cindy. Afraid Abigail. Hurt Henry. Lost Lila. Lonely Lou. Stupid Sandy. Dumb Debbie. Whore Wanda. Slut Sonia. Until there were too many to name.”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“Correct. The colors change. The outside changes, and the flavor changes too, but it is still a strawberry, despite all the changes. The changes are not the truth, the strawberry is. Now apply this to yourself, and that which remains the same is the truth.”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“This house used to be filled with voices and laughter and noises. There were always people over. So much so I had to go outside to be alone.”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“My mother was never a mother to me. She was negligent on her best days. But most of the time she was abusive and angry. She blamed me for ruining her life.”
― Erica Alexander, Because of Dylan

“There's a little witch in all of us.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
― Havelock Ellis

“Help is the sunny side of control.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope