Kat > Kat's Quotes

“But a person doesn’t always know the difference between a new beginning and a forever sort of ending.”
― Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish

“There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.”
― Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay It Forward

“But I also know that sometimes—not always, but in the best of cases—innocence lost can be knowledge gained, and I think this is one of those times.”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Someday, the stars will reach back.”
― Rachel Caine, Honor Among Thieves

“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether. Elusive, difficult to hold on to. But not much is needed.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.”
― Rachel Caine, Smoke and Iron

“You think you’re fighting for freedom. Freedom is dangerous. Give humankind freedom, and they will inevitably fall into chaos and war, religious zealotry and senseless violence. We have kept the peace. And we’ve done it by giving the people what they need, when they need it. Not what they want. Want is nothing but blind and selfish greed.”
― Rachel Caine, Smoke and Iron

“No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.”
― Rachel Caine, Ash and Quill

“Let me find the strength to do this, he said. And let me be strong enough to protect them from what's coming.”
― Rachel Caine, Ash and Quill

“Sometimes it takes more courage to stay in place than to move.”
― A.G. Howard, Stain

“Keep cool but care”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Regret isn't a negative. Wishing we could do better isn't bad... And if you let go of that regret, if you forget about consequence, then what are you? Who are you?”
― Emma Vieceli, Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

“Did you know that Anastasia, the Romanov grand duchess, took selfies?.... Of course she used a mirror, but still… Those photos she took had no third party. No outside eye. They come directly to us from her, across the ages. A long-gone girl capturing her own image and immortalizing it.”
― Emma Vieceli, Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

“Mom mustn’t find the box because moms want to know everything.”
― Stephen King, Gwendy's Button Box

“We suffer so everyone else can smile.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

“Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“Love isn't obvious until you're in it...It's not a punch in the face that leaves you reeling. Love is gradual and sneaky. It grows like weeds between the cracks of a hundred average moments.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

“Grief is quiet. Grief is a strangled cry. Tears we hide. A scream in a vacuum where sound doesn't carry. And though we try to share it, grief is ultimately a burden each of us must carry alone.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried