Steph O'Neil > Steph's Quotes

“furious flutter
awakened hummingbird heart
hello hello love”
― Megan McCafferty

“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.”
― Megan McCafferty

“Some have it that patience is actually despair dressed as a virtue.”
― Heather McGowan, Schooling

“Gravity pulls harder on troubles than on anything else.”
― Carrie Ryan, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and pushing her apart from the inside.”
― Carrie Ryan, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“Only a man of genius can bare a solitary life.”
― Heather McGowan, Schooling

“You are here to learn, not to love. Although you may learn not to love, which is another thing entirely.”
― Heather McGowan, Schooling

“Giddy's answer did not surprise her, even as it did. Knowing and not knowing.”
― Heather McGowan, Schooling

“A man could get used to anything if he had to.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“In a world of monotonous horror
there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

“Perhaps it was time to stop choosing small places.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“And then because hope will break the heart better than any sorrow, she started to cry.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all; it's just your sucky personality.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“You. Yes You”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I wish our love was right now.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”
― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska