Bethany Easterling > Bethany's Quotes

“I think about my dad's favorite expression: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. What is my house made of? Paper, I decide. Like in a pop-up book. Easily collapsible.”
― Julie Buxbaum, What to Say Next

“10/30/38
Where do you look for someone who's never really there?
Always on a staircase but never on a stair”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Look! A riddle! Time for fun!
Should we use a rope or gun?
Knives are sharp and gleam so pretty
Poison’s slow, which is a pity
Fire is festive, drowning’s slow
Hanging’s a ropy way to go
A broken head, a nasty fall
A car colliding with a wall
Bombs make a very jolly noise
Such ways to punish naughty boys!
What shall we use? We can’t decide.
Just like you cannot run or hide.
Ha ha.
Truly,
Devious”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“There is nothing so serious as a game.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“Stevie woke the next morning, which was a good start. When things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“How does this keep happening to you?” David said. “Because I look,” Stevie replied. “A lot of things happen when you go out and do them on purpose.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Maybe this is what happened when you built a friendship on a foundation of mutual disaster. It collapsed the second things righted themselves, left you desperate for the next earthquake.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“She looked like a whisper made real.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
“That’ll be written on a few tombstones before this is over,”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“There’s not a lot you can control, you know. Where you’re born. Who your family is. What people want from you, and what you are, underneath it all. When you have so little say in it all, I think it’s important to exercise a measure of control when given the opportunity.” She smiled, ducking her head. “So I blow things up.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“It’s strange to grieve for your former self, and still I think it’s something that any girl understands. I’ve shed so many skins, I hardly know what I am now—muscle, maybe, or just memory. Perhaps just the will to keep going.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“Reading took me away from myself, so I tried to be reading all the time.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie

“I want to be good without being nice. Can I do that?”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie

“There was a kind of relief in it, the giving up.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie

“I kept my own company. That was a polite way of saying that I was my own friend and if I want to be alone I’d have to get rid of myself.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie

“The only common denominator in everything you attempt is yourself.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Case for Jamie

“Carry on, Simon.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Safety, stability--it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“I just wanted to tell you that i'm going to carry on. As i am.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“Do you ever not go for the lowest blow? Like, do you ever think, 'Maybe I shouldn't say the most cruel thing just now?'"
"I'm trying to be efficient.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

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

“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Spirals grow infinitely small the farther you follow them inward, but they also grow infinitely large the farther you follow them out.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Instead of worrying about taking, we should worry about giving. We can’t stop the take. But we can do a hell of a lot about the give.”
― Kiera Cass, The Siren