Philip Ellwell > Philip's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 294

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next »

like

#1

“But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

262 likes

like

#2

“You are afraid to die?'
Yes, everyone is.'
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: death, vampires

99 likes

like

#3

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu

395 likes

like

#4

“The nerd in me that needs to understand everything is dying to drive July to a lab and cut off pieces of her to look at under a microscope to see if I can figure out what’s keeping her alive, and the poet in me wants to ask her a million questions about being dead so that I can understand how she sees the world and what the stars look like through eyes that once saw what’s on the other side of life. But July doesn’t need a nerd or a poet. She needs a friend, and I suppose that unenviable job has fallen to me.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

tags: death, dying, friend, friendship, life, living, nerd, poet, shaun-david-hutchinson

3 likes

like

#4

“Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

200 likes

like

#4

“I can’t fuck your life, I’m monogamously fucking my own life.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

tags: humour

118 likes

like

#5

“I hate when assholes have talent. I want to live in a world where good people rule at everything and shitty people suck at everything.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

110 likes

like

#6

“Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

tags: love

193 likes

like

#6

“The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.”
― Elizabeth Rudnick, Beauty and the Beast Novelization

19 likes

like

#10

“Secrets lie in the entrails of things, in the dregs.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

12 likes

like

#11

“Everything smelled wet and feral like it did before a thunderstorm, and she wanted to run, swift and eager, beyond the edge of what she could see.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

9 likes

like

#12

“they seemed like talismans that might actually keep the monsters at bay. Until she realized that she was one of the monsters.”
― Holly Black, Tithe

7 likes

like

#13

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: death, hatred, love, selfishness

592 likes

like

#14

“The euphoria was tangible: I could taste it in the air, the sweetness coating my mouth and going straight to my head like champagne.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

29 likes

like

#15

“Flushed with starlight and moonlight drowned,
All the dreamers are castle-bound.
At midnight’s stroke, we will unwind,
Revealing fantasies soft or unkind.
Show me debauched nightmares or sunniest daydreams.
Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

tags: dreams, erin-a-craig, fairytales, fantasy, house-of-salt-and-sorrows, magic, nightmares, party

87 likes

like

#16

“Nights like this were meant to be shared, remembers, and talked about for years. Skies like this were meant to be kissed under.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

17 likes

like

#17

“It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.”

“But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly. “So free when you have no worries or cares.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: captain-hook, free, growing-up, heartless, lost-boys, never-grow-up, no-worries, peter-pan, selfish, young

38 likes

like

#18

“They all thought they were special, but only I was. I was first and none of them could take that from me. I was first and best and last and always.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: always, best, captain-hook, favorite, first, last, lost-boys, peter-pan, special

25 likes

like

#19

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: captain-hook, children, die, grow-up, lost-boys, never-grow-up, peter-pan

33 likes

like

#20

“I didn’t believe him at first, about the island, though.”

“I didn’t either,”I said. “I don’t know that anyone does. It sounds like a fantastic lie.”

“It is a fantastic lie,” Sal said, and her face was very earnest. “This isn’t a wonderful place for boys to play and have adventures and stay young for always. It’s a killing place, and we’re all just soldiers in Peter’s war.”
― Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

tags: captain-hook, fantasic, killing-place, lie, lost-boys, mislead, peter-pan, soldiers, war, young

12 likes

like

#21

“Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."

"Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: usage, word-choice, writing

299 likes

like

#22

“Don't waste my time with sorries, Simon. If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes, we'll never have time to be friends.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

tags: baz, fangirl, simon

14 likes

like

#23

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

1629 likes

like

#24

“I would remain nearer you for what time there is."

"Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted.

Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath.”
― Holly Black, Valiant

tags: black, faerie, holly, valiant

122 likes

like

#25

“You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.”
― Holly Black, Valiant

tags: love

196 likes

like

#26

“It's the flaw that brings out the beauty.”
― Holly Black, Valiant

88 likes

like

#27

“I like all the things that make you monstrous.”
― Holly Black, Valiant

53 likes

like

#28

“Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.”
― Holly Black, Valiant

23 likes

like

#29

“To die, one must first have been alive. And the Beast could finally say that by finding love, he had lived.”
― Serena Valentino, The Beast Within

29 likes

like

#30

“His eyes looked cruel, piercing, almost like those of a wolf seeking his prey, and his mouth looked thinner, more sinister than it had looked before.”
― Serena Valentino, The Beast Within

4 likes

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 next »

All Quotes

Tags From Philip’s Quotes

death
vampires
carmilla
classic
gothic
horror
joseph-sheridan-le-fanu
dying
friend
friendship
life
living
nerd
poet
shaun-david-hutchinson
humour
love
hatred
selfishness
dreams
erin-a-craig
fairytales
fantasy
house-of-salt-and-sorrows
magic
nightmares
party
captain-hook
free
growing-up
heartless
lost-boys
never-grow-up
no-worries
peter-pan
selfish
young
always
best
favorite
first
last
special
children
die
grow-up
fantasic
killing-place
lie
mislead
soldiers
war
usage
word-choice
writing
baz
fangirl
simon
black
faerie
holly
valiant