Penny > Penny's Quotes

“i still have
the scarlet scarf
you gave me.
it smells of your
wild freedom.

if only we
could
feel what
we remember
and not just
remember
what we
felt.”
― Christopher Poindexter, Naked Human

“Laurent’s fair skin and blue eyes were a combination that was rare in Patras, rarer in Akielos, and a particular weakness of Damen’s.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince

“Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“What do you like?'
'Music. Numbers. Equations. They're not like words. They...they don't get mixed up.'
'If only you could talk to girls in equations.'
There was a long silence, and then, eyes trained on the notch they'd created in the link, Wylan said, 'Just girls?'
Jesper restrained a grin. 'No, not just girls.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You aren't going to shoot me. You're just a Love Interest."
"No, I'm not." I lower the gun and aim it at his right kneecap.
Even though I've been through hell, even though I've been told I'm worthless my whole life, even though I'm gay, even though the world wants me to bow down and accept that who I am makes me insignificant, the following is true:
"I'm the protagonist, fucker!"
I pull the trigger.”
― Cale Dietrich, The Love Interest

“You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some.   go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm.   make words your finest weapons— a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n.   - a survival plan of sorts.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“i’m pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s.   - women are some kind of magic.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“Have I told you I love you?" he whispers.
I smile. "Not since this morning."
"Unforgivable. I will tell you every hour of every day.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“But my heart is a treacherous star, refusing to dim when the sun rises”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“People spend a lot of time thinking about the planets that might orbit all those stars, but they ignore the worlds inside themselves.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, Feral Youth

“I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Let me go.”
“I can’t”, he said hoarsely, (…)” I’ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I can’t.”
― Judith McNaught, Once and Always

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“She smelled of flowers and rain. A meadow beneath a storm. It was intoxicating, and before he could even ponder why he would think something so flighty, he pulled in lungfuls of it until he swayed slightly. His eyes sprang open, and his equilibrium balanced.”
― Micah Persell, Uncharted Waters

“ They are surely gods who speak to him With steady voices  
A glance from him drives men to their knees
His sigh brings cities to ruin  
I wonder if he dreams of surrender
On a bed of white flowers  
Or is that the mistaken hope
Of every would-be conqueror?
The world was not made for beauty like his ”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.

Never had he wanted something this badly, and held it in his hands knowing that tomorrow it would be gone, traded for the high cliffs of Ios, and the uncertain future across the border, the chance to stand before his brother, to ask him for all the answers that no longer seemed important. A kingdom, or this.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince: Volume Two

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Eyes. Those damn eyes fucked me forever.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.

And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five