Ciska > Ciska's Quotes

“And second, everyone is so weird, but they're all completely accepted. It's like, okay, you have a pumpkin head, and that guy's made of tin, and you're a talking chicken, but what the hell, let's do a road trip.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Borrower

“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Borrower

“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I
will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”
― Lauren Kate, Passion

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation. ”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“They had no past. They had no future. They just were.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman

“All nations were different. The Russians were unparalleled in their suffering, the English in their reserve, the Americans in their love of life, the Italians in their love of Christ, and the French in their hope of love. So when they made the dress for Tatiana, they made it full of promise. They made it as if to tell her, put it on, chérie, and in this dress you, too, shall be loved as we have loved; put it on and love shall be yours. And so Tatiana never despaired in her white dress with red roses. Had the Americans made it, she would have been happy. Had the Italians made it, she would have started praying, had the British made it, she would have squared her shoulders, but because the French had made it, she never lost hope.”
― Paullina Simons

“Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Prejudices are comforting: everyone should make sure to cultivate at least three.”
― Sophie Hannah, Kind of Cruel

“Life is scarier than death.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Rose Garden

“If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?”
― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution

“People…ladies, I mean…they dye their hair sometimes,” I explained to him. “So one day they have red hair and another day they have brown hair. It doesn’t matter,” I said. “They’re still the same lady.”
― Diane Chamberlain, Secrets She Left Behind

“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Zombies are so passe”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Detective

“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fear Institute