Shawn > Shawn's Quotes

“I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?”
― Ellen Hopkins

“Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Impulse

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.”
― Patricia McCormick, Cut

“Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.”
― Patricia McCormick, Sold

“Guard the portals of your mind.”
― Patricia McCormick, Sold

“If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.”
― Patricia McCormick, Sold

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Well, that's an evil smile...”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
― Alysha Speer

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“You can't eat books, sweetheart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Donny recovered herself. “Dude, that was the seventh sign of the apocalypse. I’m so not going to class on the last day of the world.”
― Gwen Hayes, Falling Under

“Puzzle pieces don't always connect do they?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“Forgiveness isn’t my best thing.
Easier staying pissed. But I’m
tired of being pissed all the time.
Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that
can never be fixed because it is
an indelible part of the past.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Fallout

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the opposing wrists, nails digging in deep, hard, scratching. Pain to replace pain.”
― Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You

“Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.”
― Joseph B. Wirthlin

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut