Emily > Emily's Quotes

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they're real, they're actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they're all really in Outside. I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. Are we still real?”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“I’m tired of living without really living.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first. And then I’ll die.”
― Rachael Lippincott, Five Feet Apart

“The problem with books is that they end.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface?”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we’re never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“The real horror of my life is not that I’ve killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I’ve loved didn’t love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Love is kind, love is patient but also, mainly, above all—yes—Love is perverted.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees