Amber > Amber's Quotes

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, Dark Secrets 1

“If there's black tar in that well, you won't find fresh flowers when you drain it”
― Christian Mørk, Darling Jim

“And with one look, he cracked me open like a safe and stole everything inside.”
― Christian Mørk, Darling Jim

“Would he love her or kill her?”
― Christian Mørk, Darling Jim

“Love only the people who deserve you.”
― Christian Mørk, Darling Jim

“She seems to think being cryptic is some kind of substitute for having a decent personality.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Tantalize

“In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Tantalize

“Turned out there was some big, bad Wolf in my good boy after all.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Tantalize

“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“A secret is a burden. It's exhausting, a lie.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Diabolical

“She may not need to breathe, but she's like air to me.”
― Cynthia Leitich Smith, Diabolical

“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I promise." and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“She sometimes wished she possessed the flawed kind of taste that drew girls to arseholes who wanted that one thing alone.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“The first time she'd lured her ex to a restaurant it had been all she could do to snap him out of the reverie he entered, only for him to emerge spouting nonsense about how she was a princess, a goddess, even a fucking mermaid one time he called her.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“The woods felt like a sleeping monster worth tiptoeing past.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet