Dorothyd > Dorothyd's Quotes

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“- "Why don't you like to be touched?"
- "Because I'm fifty shades of fucked-up, Anastasia”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“You were never a villain to me.”
― Heather Walter, Malice

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

“To quote the most famous lesbian of all time, Elsa of Arendelle, “The past is in the past.”
― Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

“And you’re welcome," she says, looking over at me, eyebrows raised, "for hitting May with the car.”
― Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

“My two cents? Don’t let him take over your life—your beau. He should just be a part of it, doll. Never the whole thing.”
― Jake Maia Arlow, How to Excavate a Heart

“Honesty game: What is your favorite Taylor Swift album, and why is it evermore?”
― Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

“Thank you to Taylor Swift, for writing evermore, the perfect Christmas album, and for releasing RED TV in the middle of my developmental edits, so I could listen to “Forever Winter” on repeat while rewriting the flashbacks in this book for the millionth time.”
― Alison Cochrun, Kiss Her Once for Me

“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Some men's childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“« Nice to meet you, too, » she said. « And please, you can call me Rosemary. »
Kirk stuck out his hand. « Could Sage’s father, Parsley, not make it? »”
― Bryce Oakley, Never Mine

“Gianna hadn't had feelings for anyone else in ten years. She hadn't wanted to date anyone. Hadn't opted for romance.
All because Gianna wanted her.”
― Haley Cass, On the Same Page

“When I’m close to you, you make everything feel the way the world should be. You make everything make sense.”
― Haley Cass, On the Same Page

“Go away, close the book, put it down do not look!”
― Holly Black, The Field Guide

“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I think it's gonna turn out okay”
― Tatsuya Endo, Spy x Family, Vol. 1

“What I am is an adult woman with agency and the tools to make choices. Feel free to, you know, treat me accordingly.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
"So?" said Kaz.
"Well, usually it's just half the city.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Fuck one flesh, one end, Harrow. I already gave my flesh to you, and I already gave you my end. I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“But Harrowhark—Harrow, who was two hundred dead children; Harrow, who loved something that had not been alive for ten thousand years—Harrowhark Nonagesimus had always so badly wanted to live. She had cost too much to die.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes