Laila > Laila's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 1,036
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 34 35
sort by

  • #1
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #2
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,” declared Anne. “I’m quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. I know Matthew gave me as much love with them as ever went with Madame the Pink Lady’s jewels.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #3
    Roald Dahl
    “I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.”
    Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

  • #4
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #5
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #6
    Lemony Snicket
    “They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #7
    Lemony Snicket
    “Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #8
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #9
    Cassandra Clare
    “There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #10
    Stephanie Perkins
    “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #11
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #12
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #13
    Stephen Chbosky
    “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #14
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

  • #16
    Lemony Snicket
    “It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

  • #17
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #18
    Cassandra Clare
    “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
    "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #19
    Cassandra Clare
    “Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #21
    Cassandra Clare
    “People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

  • #22
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    “I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
    Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

  • #23
    Cecily von Ziegesar
    “Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.”
    Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl

  • #24
    Cecily von Ziegesar
    “Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!”
    Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl

  • #25
    Rita Williams-Garcia
    “We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.”
    Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer

  • #26
    Sophie Kinsella
    “I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

  • #27
    Lurlene McDaniel
    “Oh, Mom, what’s ‘normal’ mean, anyway? ‘Normal’ is whatever we make it.”
    Lurlene McDaniel, Kathleen's Story

  • #28
    Sophie Kinsella
    “A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…”
    Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

  • #29
    Sophie Kinsella
    “Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”
    Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

  • #30
    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen



Rss
« previous 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 34 35