Michelle > Michelle's Quotes

“She had the human look of a domesticated animal.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“If I get married, I want to be very married.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“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

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.”
― Nicole Richie

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.”
― E.B. White

“A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

“If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie which we ascribe to heaven.”
― Mona Awad, All's Well

“One believes the stupidest things in grief.”
― Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio

“Imagine a world so small that your ego can fill all of it.”
― Samantha Allen, Patricia Wants to Cuddle

“...We humans are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Men, after all, delight in nothing so much as to recast themselves in the center of the story.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“It was hard to pour endless love into someone who wouldn’t love you back. No one could do it forever.”
― Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth

“Human will is a particularly powerful magic. Alchemy happens when a person truly decides something; when a mind is changed.”
― Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

“It’s an epidemic with women your age. A gross disparity between the way that they speak and the quality of thoughts that they’re having about the world. They are taught to express themselves in slang, in clichés, sarcasm—all of which is weak language. The superficiality of the language colors the experiences, rendering them disposable instead of assimilated. And then to top it all, you call yourselves ‘girls.’ ”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“Sometimes, when I have a nice interaction with someone, I hope I never see them again.”
― Emily R. Austin, Interesting Facts about Space

“Didn't you envy? Didn't you want? A mirror is only a mirror, Belle. It only ever reflects back what we desire and long for”
― Mona Awad, Rouge

“It was easy to love someone in the beginnings and endings; it was all the time in between that was so hard.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters