Summer Shaffer > Summer's Quotes

“If there is one thing working with the unknown has taught me, it’s that what appears to be weird and scary really isn’t once you learn more about it—we’re all just parts of the natural world.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“The woods around me were teeming with … something. A promise of new life, perhaps, nature’s brutal quickening—or maybe I’m just afraid to tell it like it was, to use that scary word: the woods seemed to be bursting with MAGIC.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“I can assure you at once that Ilsbeth’s story isn’t every woman’s story, but only the story of those of us broken and ostracized for being cut from a different cloth than the rest. Bitter fates like Ilsbeth’s don’t strike randomly but are tailored to harm those who stray from the flock.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“What had happened between us had made me so raw, so very, very hungry for love and affection—someone to call my own—that I think I latched on to the first person who offered and clung to it with all my might, trying to heal my wounds.”
― Camilla Bruce, The Witch in the Well

“People think that we’re defined by the big moments in our lives: births, deaths, successes, and failures. But I think the little moments matter more because those are the moments that shape your self-perception and who you want to become.”
― Daniel G. Miller, The Orphanage by the Lake

“I swallowed a knot that felt like barbed wire. Or maybe it was a tangle of the Vincent family practicality I’d inherited from my mother, that old familiar ability to use those negative emotions as fuel to Get. Shit. Done.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I realized that the feelings wouldn’t stop until the waiting did. You can’t force a person to show up, but you can learn a lesson when they don’t. Trust people’s actions, not their words. Don’t love anyone who isn’t ready to love you back. Let go of the people who don’t hold on to you. Don’t wait on anyone who’s in no rush to get to you.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I don’t think there’s a right way to feel,” I say. “And you can’t control it, anyway. Feelings are like weather. They just happen, and then they pass.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“That I’m doing what I swore I never would: making space in my heart for someone whom experience has taught me not to trust.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren’t imaginative enough to dream up.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“When you shatter the chains of this world and forge the next, remember that art is as vital as food to a kingdom. Without it, a kingdom is nothing, and will be forgotten by time. I have amassed enough money in my miserable life to not need any more—so you will understand me clearly when I say that wherever you set your throne, no matter how long it takes, I will come to you, and I will bring music and dancing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass