Trine > Trine's Quotes

“live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other
-Lady Gaga via twitter”
― Lady Gaga

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You're not living if you're not regretting.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“as•ymp•tote (ˈasəm(p)ˌtōt) n. pl. -s. 1. A wish that continually approaches but never achieves fulfillment. [2015, Whittier]”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“It’s tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn’t it?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“It's a hard concept to hold on to--the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.

In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“As long as it’s what you’re passionate about, go for it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“I'm scared of everything,” I admitted, Voice hushed. “ everything. My biggest fear is forever that I'll be like this forever.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.

- except maybe yourself.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
& wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself.   - how’s that for a happily ever after?”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“i’m not scared
of the monsters

hidden underneath
my bed.

i’m much more scared
of the boys

with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,

& mouths
that only know

how to form
half-truths.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One