Ivy > Ivy's Quotes

“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
― Lisa Kleypas, A Wallflower Christmas

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“No one wanted to deal with damaged. It made them uncomfortable.”
― Cambria Hebert, #Nerd

“Es sagt viel über die Welt aus, mein Kind,
sagte der Vater zu dem Knaben,
dass die Dummen glücklich sind
und die Schlauen Depressionen haben.”
― Marc-Uwe Kling

“The problem with fairy tales is that most of them begin with tragedy.”
― Kelly Oram, Cinder & Ella

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.”
― Penelope Ward, Jake Understood

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone...way down deep, use words.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“An impossibility is just a possibility you don’t understand yet”
― Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas

“You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.”
― Stephen King, Night Shift

“You never know, just by looking, what a person is hiding.”
― Sarah Morgan, Miracle on 5th Avenue

“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else’s tragedy—drowning in icy waters, living in a city split by a wall—but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you. Most of all, to your child.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe & powerful.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“Nije li čudno što se ljudi tako rado bore za svoju vjeru, a tako nerado žive po njenim zakonima.”
― Marija Jurić Zagorka, Grička vještica I - VII

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary