Mad > Mad's Quotes

“Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“The measure of a man is what he does when he has power.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“I am the Reaper and death is my shadow.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“But even in hell there are moments when the light reaches you.”
― Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“And remember this: take the hard road, not the easy one. The road that leads to life is a hard one, and it passes through a narrow gate, but the road to destruction is easy, and the gate is broad. Plenty take the easy road; few take the hard one. Your job is to find the hard one, and go by that.”
― Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
But I do not.
I do not.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“I will die. You will die. We will all die and the universe will carry on without care. All that we have is that shout into the wind - how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”
― Neil Gaiman , Stardust

“No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.”
― Jessica Spotswood, Born Wicked

“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Dust particles panicked and swarmed in the light.”
― Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
― Anna Sewell , Black Beauty