EJ > EJ's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“This action will have no echo.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You don’t look like a monster.”
“I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“There are a million pieces of us scattered through my memory, moments tiny and insignificant to everyone else in the world except for me.”
― Marie Lu, Rebel

“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Nobody is honest, nobody is real. You can't trust anyone or anything. Emotions are humanity's fatal disease. And we're all dying.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Split between the green and the blue, there is an indefinable beauty that people call humanity.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“The problem is that people don't act.
The problem is that I don't act.
I just sit here, doing nothing, assuming that someone else is going to make things better.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“Nothing's going to change until you decide you want it to change.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“We’re so used to disaster that we accept it. We think we deserve it.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I don't understand why you can't accept things like this. If you can't accept things you don't understand, then you'll spend your life questioning everything. Then you'll have to live out your life in you own head.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“There comes a point, though, when you can't keep looking after other people any more. You have to start looking after yourself.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“And there’s sort of a moment where everyone’s sitting and thinking, you know? Like that feeling when you finish watching a film. You turn off the TV, the screen is black, but the pictures are replaying in your head and you think, what if that’s my life? What if that’s going to happen to me?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“It’s important to make lots of discoveries every day.” He stands back up. “That’s what makes one day different from the next.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“It's all fake. Everyone is faking. Why does no one care about anything?”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire