Sam > Sam's Quotes

“but it felt spectacularly bigger, the way a word feels bigger with an exclamation point tacked onto it.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Cancer! Because only something as horrible and deadly as cancer would relieve a woman from the tedium of having to make dinner for her family every night!”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“Cart-riding was forbidden by my mother, who thought it was the childhood equivalent of racing a motorcycle without a helmet.”
― Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“She hangs up just as a text from Sofia comes in. Are you on the phone with Isaac? A chill rolls up Caroline’s spine. The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“The right way isn’t the only way.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Don’t borrow tomorrow’s trouble.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Dragon relationships are absolutely incomprehensible.”
“Yeah? You should try a human one sometime. Just as vicious, but less fire.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Funny how people rename everything that makes them feel uncomfortable.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“But if we let fear kill whatever this is between us, then we don’t deserve it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I want you to do what siblings are supposed to do—hate your parents but love each other!”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Identicals

“Real men wear floral when trespassing”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“I’m irrationally serious.” Pip smiled, holding the Tupperware out to him. “And I made muffins.” “Like bribery muffins?” “That’s what the recipe said, yeah.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Because half less of a bad thing meant there was room for half good.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“The wonder is that you could start life with nothing, end with nothing, and lose so much in between.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“a good story doesn’t just copy life, it pushes back on it.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“I think most of humankind would agree, the hard part of high school is the people.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“...it’s hard to climb back out of the hole once you’ve dug in your heels.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“ 'I killed their pack leader,' Sevro says when I ask why the wolves follow him. He looks me up and down and flashes me an impish grin from beneath the wolf pelt. 'Don't worry, I wouldn't fit in your skin.' ”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“You're Pippa Fricking Fitz-Amo-bi. My little Sarge. Pippus Maximus, and there's nothing you can't do.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“More women are murdering people these days,” says Joyce. “If you ignore the context, it is a real sign of progress.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“Some people in life, Sue, are weather forecasters, whereas other people are the weather itself.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice

“Don’t get a small dog though, Joyce,’ says Ron. ‘Small dogs are like small men: always got a point to prove. Yapping it up, barking at cars.”
― Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice