Nora Cayetano > Nora's Quotes

“My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Keep moving forward.”
― William Joyce, Meet the Robinsons

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”
― Hilaire Belloc

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

“I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.”
― Ellen Schreiber

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.”
― Clare B. Dunkle

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“How long will you keep me?" I asked.
You shrugged. "Forever, of course.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“The people we care for aren't always the one we should”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you."

You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful and cold...a ring made entirely from a gemstone. It was beautiful. It glinted emerald greens and blood reds over my skin, and had tiny flecks of gold catching the light. I couldn't stop staring at it.

"Why?" I asked.

You didn't answer that. Instead you touched the ring gently and looked piercingly at me, unsaid questions in your eyes.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“I called the rooster Dick, after you.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“Leif: Quiero que seas la chica que busco en los pasillos todas las mañanas y a quien le guardo un asiento en la cafetería. Quiero que seas la que me espera cuando salgo fuera de la cancha en mis juegos. Quiero que seas la que me hace levantar el teléfono para llamarte, sólo para hacerme sonreír”
― Abbi Glines, Existence

“First time I told my dad I liked a girl, he slathered me in honey and sealed me in a bear den for a night. Haven’t liked one since.” “First time I told my mother I fancied someone, she baked me in an oven for an hour,” Mona agreed, green skin paling. “I never think about boys now.” “First time I liked a boy, my dad killed him.” The group stopped and stared at Arachne. “Maybe Sophie just had bad parents,” she said.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“Naturally the villagers blamed bears. No one had ever seen a bear in Gavaldon, but this made them more determined to find one. Four years later, when two more children vanished, the villagers admitted they should have been more specific and declared black bears the culprit, bears so black they blended with the night. But when children continued to disappear every four years, the village shifted their attention to burrowing bears, then phantom bears, then bears in disguise. . . Until it became clear it wasn't it wasn't bears at all.”
― Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil

“A veces las cosas no salen como uno quisiera. La gente se enamora todos los días, pero no todos los días se escriben historias de amor.”
― Nora Cayetano, Toy-Box

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.
It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings.
It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Quise vivir un cuento dentro de mi tragedia y no recordé que los cuentos son cortos.”
― Fabián Tapia, Cartas por el cielo