Violence > Violence's Quotes

“We look up at the same stars and see such different things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I’m not going to give up what I love just because I might not have it forever,”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Si el universo es tan infinito y aún así yo estoy aquí para descubrirlo, tiene que ser porque mi existencia es importante.”
― Claudia Ramírez Lomelí, El príncipe del sol

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.
Matilda froze in horror. The father kept going. There seemed little doubt that the man felt some kind of jealousy. How dare she, he seemed to be saying with each rip of a page, how dare she enjoy reading books when he couldn't? How dare she?”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Perhaps his anger was intensified because he saw her getting pleasure from something that was beyond his reach.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“I love you so much I spend all day with you, and it still isn’t enough for me,” he kept going. I stopped breathing. “I love you so much, if I can’t skate with you, I don’t want to skate with anyone else.” Holy. Fuck. “I love you so fucking much, Jasmine, that if I broke my ankle during a program, I would get up and finish it for you, to get you what you’ve always wanted.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Challenges were only hard if you went into them expecting not to succeed.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“But my mom had told me once that regret was worse than fear.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Give me all your competition dates in advance. It’ll be the Hunger Games on ice. I’ll buy everyone in the family front row seats,”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“Cuando amas lo que tienes, tienes todo lo que necesitas.”
― Claudia Ramírez, El príncipe del sol

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

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

“I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness coming, see the net drawing tight around the characters who live and breathe on the pages. But you are tied to the story as if being dragged behind a carriage and you cannot let go or turn the course aside.” His blue eyes were dark with understanding — of course Will would understand — and she hurried on. “I feel now as if the same is happening, only not to characters on a page but to my own beloved friends and companions. I do not want to sit by while tragedy comes for us. I would turn it aside, only I struggle to discover how that might be done.”
“You fear for Jem,” Will said.
“Yes,” she said. “And I fear for you, too.”
“No,” Will said, hoarsely. “Don’t waste that on me, Tess.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“I still doubt it will work."
"You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden
said with a smile.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her.
Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us
sick.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris