Mariah Weise > Mariah's Quotes

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Why are you being so nice to me?' I asked her.
'You know,' she said, 'when you say stuff like that I just want to slap you.'
'What?'
'You heard me.' She picked up her beer and took a swallow, still watching me. Then she said, 'Colie, you should never be surprised when people treat you with respect. You should expect it.'
I shook my head. 'You don’t know-' I began. But, as usual, she didn’t let me finish.
'Yes,' she said simply. 'I do know. I’ve watched you, Colie. You walk around like a dog waiting to be kicked, and when someone does, you pout and cry like you didn’t deserve it.'
'No one deserves to be kicked,' I said.
'I disagree,' she said flatly. 'You do if you don’t think you’re worth any better.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Do you ever feel that way?"
"Lonely?"
I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it."
He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have.
"Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last.
"What?"
"Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“We create the illusions we need to go on.”
― Libba Bray

“But...you could have whatever you wished."
"Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck.
"But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage."
Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.”
― Libba Bray

“Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent."
"Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.”
― Libba Bray

“When I dream, I dream of him.”
― Libba Bray

“I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“To each his own magic.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.”
― Libba Bray

“Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“How can my ankles and arms be obscene?”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”
― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty

“But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?'
It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing