Sarah > Sarah's Quotes

“Please don't cry, darling. I'd spare you tears for the rest of your life if I could”
― Keira Cass

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”
― Keira Cass, The Elite

“If there's one thing I've learned from being in the Selection, it's that some girls have a frightening killer instinct. Don't let the ball gowns fool you," she finished with a smile.”
― Kiera Cass

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“We just did an awesome job of not dying.”
― John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“I may have been a complete lunatic, but I was a complete lunatic with manners.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I don't believe in love."

"It's not a religion," he says. "It exists whether you believe in it or not.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Desperation translates into every language.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Observable Fact: People aren’t logical.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It’s hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn’t want you.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“Having dreams never killed anybody.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“You're just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“love is just chemicals and coincidence.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“People spend their whole lives looking for love. Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. But how can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It's a long life to spend doing something you're only meh about.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star