Pearl > Pearl's Quotes

“Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there's a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on. You don't stop after you solve one thing You keep going, you find a new way and a new path, try to do better and create better. tearing something down isn't the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is. Or maybe there isn't such a thing as an end goal at all. You accomplish something, and then you shift, ready to accomplish the next. You keep solving one problem after another until you change the world.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“Everything became amazing; then, everything turned awful. Life is always like that - you don't know when you'll suddenly claw your way out of your circumstances, or when you'll go crashing back down into them.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“The mind can make you believe whatever it wants you to believe.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“Tearing something down isn't the end; doing something great, or better, something right, is.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“Every problem has a solution. But after every solution, there's a new problem to tackle, some new challenge to take on.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“Am I ever going to see you again?" Hideo asks him. In his voice is his lost self, the boy who grew up with a silver streak of grief in his hair. And that's when I realize that, at the end, we'd all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“In spite of everything I'd seen and all I knew about what was wrong with the NeuroLink-I'm sad without it. Hideo had created something that changed all of our lives, often for the better. It was a creation that had probably saved my life. And yet, here I am. Maybe I should feel like a hero. But I don't. It's always easier to destroy than create.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“That's the difference between the real and the virtual. Reality is where you can lose the ones you love. Reality is the place where you can feel the cracks in your heart.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“When the world is murky, guide yourself with your own steady light.”
― Marie Lu, Wildcard

“Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“To me, the you in your greatest glory is you, the you that has fallen from grace is also you, the most important thing is you, not what kind of you.”
― 墨香铜臭, 天官赐福 [Tiān Guān Cì Fú]

“DETECTION HAS MANY METHODS, MANY PATHWAYS, NARROW AND subtle. Fingerprints. The lost piece of thread. The dog barking in the night. But there is also Google.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Stevie woke the next morning, which was a good start. When things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“You probably don't like snow, right?'

'Oh, I like it,' Nate said. 'Snow makes it socially acceptable to stay in.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Like the nightmares that came at night, we were meant to be seductive. We were designed to lure our victims in. Then, when it was too late to draw back, we struck.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn

“There’s too many other people in the world who want nothing more than to kick you when you’re down. Don’t you dare do that job for them.”
― T.J. Klune, Tell Me It's Real