Isabela Herckes > Isabela's Quotes

“But that’s it,” Cielo said. “We’re not like them. Or rather, we are and we aren’t. People hold a deep fear of complication.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Brilliant Death

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or
an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“But if I would show the good that came of it, I must talk about things other than the good”
― Dante Alighieri

“Happiness is a dance where each step brings you closer together or farther apart, but you never lose sight of one another. You could even say that it's made from the tears of separations, safe in the knowledge that there will always be reunions.”
― Timothée de Fombelle, Le Livre de Perle

“There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs.”
― Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

“Whoever destroys a single life destroys the whole world. And whoever saves a single life saves the whole world.”
― Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

“The mind is like a muddy road. Two ruts run down its center, from all the carts that have passed that way. No matter how many carts try to roll alongside the ruts, to stay out of the mud, sooner or later, a turn here or a jolt there will send them down into the ruts for good. Just so is the mind. As hard as we try to keep our thoughts out of the old ways, the old patterns, the old ruts, any little jog or jerk will send them right back down into the mud.”
― Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“I believe in a world where impossible things happen. Where love can outstrip brutality, can neutralize it, as though it never was, or transform it into something new and more beautiful. Where love can outdo nature.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“And life was too short to play chicken with something as important as the person you loved.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated

“Maybe our Happily Ever After hadn't worked on the first shot. And maybe Happily Ever Afters weren't a singular event. Maybe they were something you had to work at, and build, and never give up on, as long as they were something you still wanted.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated

“It'll get easier. That's the beautiful thing about the universe. It puts you through trials, but it never gives you anything you can't handle. We grow from these things.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated

“But if they keep accidentally ripping your heart out over and over again, doesn't mean they're terrible people, but it probably means you're better off getting to a distance where they can't keep doing that. Accidentally or not.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated

“When you find yourself in dark places, there's always a light somewhere in that darkness, and even if that light is inside of you, you can illuminate your own darkness by shedding that light on the world.”
― Yusef Salaam, Punching the Air

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“But, just because we loved each other, doesn't mean we were meant to be together.
And just because you loved one, doesn't mean you can't love another.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“It’s almost like I was looking for the pain and the hurt, because it was easier to live with the idea that, even though I want love, I’m not the kind of person who deserves to be loved.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.”
― Plato, Phaedo

“Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante

“Follow your constellation and you cannot fail to reach your port of glory”
― Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante

“How did you get yourself in such a pickle?”
― Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante

“For when the faculty of intellect is joined with brute force and with evil will, no man can win against such an alliance.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante

“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess