Sofie > Sofie's Quotes

“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“She didn’t need to erase her pain; she needed it to propel her into action. Just because it was a negative emotion didn’t mean it wasn’t a valuable one.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“She loved the feeling of doing something bold enough to make her future hold its breath while she closed her eyes and reveled in the sensation that she’d made a choice with the power to alter the course of her life.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“This was why love was so dangerous. Love turn the whole world into a garden, so beguiling it was easy to forget that rose petals were as ephemeral as feelings, eventually they would wilt and die, leaving nothing but the thorns.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Saying something was for someone else’s own good was almost always another way of justifying something wrong.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“She has gone so long without roots, she doesn't know how to grow them anymore.
So used to losing things, she isn't sure how to hold them.
How to make space in a world the size of herself.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all. Sometimes I’m so desperate to touch, to be touched, to feel, that I’m almost certain I’m going to fall off a cliff in an alternate universe where no one will ever be able to find me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Her heart was still a little heavy, but she'd decided carrying it around would only maker her stronger.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“There were many beautiful young men in the world, but Tella believed that none of them could be trusted with something as fragile, or valuable, as a heart.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I think the most magnificent things are worth living for”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“There were shipwrecks more graceful than Tella.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“He looked like a freshly woken storm, or a beautiful nightmare come to life so he could personally haunt her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Why aren’t you dressed like a leopard with butterfly wings, or a unicorn?”
A sliver of a grin. “Not even Legend could make me dress like a unicorn.”
“But unicorns are magical, and then all the ladies would want to pet you.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I'm the villain, even in my own story.”
― Stephanie Garber, Finale

“A heart's a heavy burden.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Hope is a difficult thing to kill, just a spark of it can start a fire.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“There are days when she mourns the prospect of another year, another decade, another century. There are nights when she cannot sleep, moments when she lies awake and dreams of dying.
But then she wakes, and sees the pink and orange dawn against the clouds, or hears the lament of a lone fiddle, the music and the melody, and remembers there is such beauty in the world.
And she does not want to miss it—any of it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“When you truly care about someone, aren't you supposed to be honest, even if it means you might lose that person?”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Fate had already decided no one she loved would ever love her back.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Scar, I don't know what you're thinking, but I swear there is nothing going on between Dante and me. You know how I feel about boys who are prettier than me.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“So,’ she said cautiously, 'is all this your way of telling me you’re the villain?’
His chuckle was dark. 'I’m definitely not the hero.’
'I already knew that,’ Tella said. 'It’s my story, so clearly I’m the hero.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Weren’t you the one who said you see girls the same way we see party dresses, only to be used once?”
“Clearly I view you a little differently.” He reached for one of her errant curls and wound it around one tattooed finger, the black rose on the back of his hand spinning until it turned red beneath the ruby starlight. With every turn he drew her closer. He made it easy to ignore her achy legs and her dying heart. He twisted the hair around his finger in the same way she imagined he wanted to wrap her around his finger. As if she would ever let him.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“...judging her based on a moment like that is the same as reading one page from a book and assuming you know the whole story.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“But for all its sparkle, once Tella looked closer she thought it seemed more like glitter pretending to be stardust.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“What have I always told you about the future?"
"Every person has the power to write her own.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary