Penny > Penny's Quotes

“children used to be punished by being sent to their rooms, but these days you have to force children to come out of them. One generation got told off for not being able to sit still, the next gets told off for never moving.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“a thriller. This one promised a twisty ending I wouldn’t see coming. It seemed every thriller promised that these days, but few actually delivered.”
― Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

“No, I’ve heard of it,” he corrects me. “As a kid, I never read for fun. I’m dyslexic, and it took too long.” “What about audiobooks?” I say. “Does that count?” he asks. “Of course it counts,” I say. His eyes narrow. “Are you sure?” “I’m a librarian,” I say. “If anyone gets to decide whether it counts or not, it’s me.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Hell, I'm old enough to have a daughter named Renesmee on one of those U-5 soccer teams where the kids take turns kicking the ball the wrong way, then sitting down midfield to take off their shoes”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“We don't have a plan, we just do our best to get through the day, because there'll be another one coming along tomorrow.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“that we don’t want our children to pursue their own dreams or walk in our footsteps. We want to walk in their footsteps while they pursue our dreams.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It’s such an odd thing, the way you can know someone so perfectly through what they read.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“You don't fall in love with a gender, Anna-Lena. You fall in love with an idiot.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Here’s a lesson for everybody, take it from me: Handsome men that tell you what you want to hear are almost always liars.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“He sad, "I'm going to use that in something one day." And he wrote it down on a napkin and put it in his back pocket. I thought to myself, "What the hell makes you think I'm not going to use it in something once day?" But, of course, there it was in his next movie. That's how it was back then. I was just supposed to be the inspiration for some man's great idea.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Daisy, someone who insists on the perfect conditions to make art isn't an artist. They're an asshole.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I've seen a lot of marriages where everyone is faithful and no one is happy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“But if you get to be my age and you can’t look back at your life and wonder about some of your choices... well, you have no imagination.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“You’ll look like this one day,” she said. “They hate us enough. Don’t hate yourselves, too.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Would you prefer me to be ashamed?” she asked. “My appearance is the least of my qualities.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“She knew she shouldn’t ask. She knew she stood in a puddle of gasoline and every word was a lit match falling from her lips.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“She didn’t think things could get any worse, then she saw the sign. Welcome to Florida, it read. The Sunshine State.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“But for girls like us, down there at the Home, the devil turned out to be our only friend.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“It isn’t too smart for a girl to be smart, her mom had always said. So she just made herself very, very small.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Maybe being a witch means you go to Hell but I don’t mind if it means I don’t have to go home.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“she leaned against the wall and howled, sliding slowly down until she was kneeling on the floor crying, like Alabama trash.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Despite the Led Zeppelin volume of the crickets, everything felt very quiet.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Young lady," Dr. Vincent said. "You are being deeply disrespectful."

"Old man," Rose said, "the only one being disrespectful here is you and your golfing buddy who wants to slice me open so he can clock out by five.”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“Without salt, it was all just a bunch of chewing”
― Grady Hendrix, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

“And I have this horrible realization that I am just not a very creative person. Isn’t that an awful thing to discover about yourself?”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I’m not very good in cars. I travel everywhere by bus and subway, and this is my first time leaving Philadelphia in nearly a year. We’re traveling only ten miles into the suburbs but it feels like I’m blasting off to Mars. “What’s wrong?” Russell asks. “Nothing.” “You’re tense, Quinn. Relax.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“I’m not asking you to take care of me. I’m saying I would take care of you.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures