Erin Keller > Erin's Quotes

“Do not equate nationalism with patriotism... Nationalism is the first step on the road to Fascism.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

“The future was coming nearer, one relentless goose step after the next. Juliet could still remember when Hitler had seemed like a harmless clown. No one was amused now. (“The clowns are the dangerous ones,” Perry said.)”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

“The blame generally has to fall somewhere, Miss Armstrong. Women and the Jews tend to be first in line, unfortunately.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

“Juliet and Hartley had long ago abandoned manners with each other. It was refreshing to behave without respect towards someone.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

“As a child, he’d been so terrible that Rosa Soria had sent him twice to be exorcised. He’d been so terrible that he’d chased a field of sheds out into the road one week and burned down a herd of cattle the next. He’d been so terrible that the cowboys at the neighboring ranch still used his name as a cuss word.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“She ain't rubbed groundhog brains on her baby's sore teeth or needed to use the hen innards on the gums of her teething ones since. And after she read about a good paste recipe that cured thrush, Nestor said, none of her nine youngins ain't ever had to drink water from a stranger's shoe again to get the healin'.”
― Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

“Alex felt something dark inside her uncoil. “You’re a flat beast,” Hellie had once said to her. “Got a little viper lurking in there, ready to strike. A rattler probably.” She’d said it with a grin, but she’d been right.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Negative stereotypes and fear mongering surrounding these creatures felt eerily familiar to me as someone whose grown up black in a country where we were assumed to be threatening when we’re just minding our own business.”
― Jasmin Graham, Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

“Our strength as humans lies in our amazing diversity within our own species and those around us and we ignore this truth at our peril. As scientists, we recognize the importance of biodiversity however, for some reason many people in the field struggle to see that we need diversity not only in nature, but in research and experience.”
― Jasmin Graham, Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I wonder how much of a woman’s life is spent this way. Enduring. Waiting for enjoyment or, fuck it, death.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“I used to think, ‘Why put in all that effort just for me?’ But I get it now.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“My future is my own.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“It's a nice thing to cook for yourself.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“They're so excited for one day in a pretty dress... someone should really tell them. They can wear a retty dress whenever they want... Women are out there tethering themselves to mediocre men just so they can wear a ball gown. It's a shame.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“What is it about a woman in full control of herself that is so utterly frightening?”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“It’s a nice thing, to cook for yourself. To be good to yourself. To commit to and feed your own happiness.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“I wonder how much of a woman's life is spent this way. Enduring. Waiting for enjoyment or, fuck it, death.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“Any step away from the past is a step in the right direction.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“I embrace the next morning with all the enthusiasm of a goat entering Jurassic Park.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“They’re so excited for one day in a pretty dress,” I say. “Someone really should tell them. They can wear a pretty dress whenever they want.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“To the years ahead,” I say. “To the future.” And what a thing it is to know. My future is my own.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“But, you'll discover for yourself soon enough the things that devastate us most in the moment are always the things we look back on with such gratitude”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she'd created joy at the tips of her fingers. Suddenly, the people around the table were no longer strangers. They were friends and confidantes, and she was sharing with them her magic.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“This was why she enjoyed baking. A good dessert could make her feel like she'd created joy at the tips of her fingers.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“Aging isn’t just about our bodies decaying while we’re still inside them. It’s about living with the accumulation of experiences. The heavy burden of the ugly ones, the longing for the beautiful.”
― Rachel Harrison, So Thirsty

“Abuse is its own kind of reincarnation, isn’t it? We become the ones who made us.”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror

“If you knew how much anger I had in me you’d say Thank God she’s not a man She might destroy millions Thank God the only person she has the power to destroy Is herself”
― Nat Cassidy, Mary: An Awakening of Terror