Celesta > Celesta's Quotes

“This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.”
― Kate Constable, The Waterless Sea

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.”
― Sierra

“Boys are idiots.

Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot.

A girl, for instance, will vote for a boy in an election, or go to a movie that's about a boy, or buy a book that features a boy hero (or villain). Boys are much less likely to return the favor. They can't wrap their feeble minds around the idea that this girl might have anything in common with them. It's like they can't recognize girls as human beings.”
― Josh Lieb, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”
― Taylor Swift

“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.”
― Brandon Mull

“You're free to make your own choices, and you're free to pay the consequences.”
― Melanie Jacobson

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
― Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

“impossible is not a word”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“there is no moment more precious than the exact moment you are living now”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

“There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra

“I'm man enough to know when to scream.”
― Obert Skye, Pillage

“Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Whispered Secret

“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“There is no relationship in life that comes with the promise of zero pain.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

“I am what I am because I have made myself so.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.'
You threw away my purse.'
I thought it was an enemy.”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo

“Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option”
― Obert Skye, Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want

“I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.”
― Obert Skye, Pillage

“What-ifs are for fools”
― Obert Skye