Lanie > Lanie's Quotes

“Locked doors are better than friends you can't trust.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“In the cold light of day, the whys of night are only so much smoke. And in the end, they don't matter. We must face our sins in the sunlight.”
― Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen

“Sometimes it is easier to believe in monsters than the truth about someone we love”
― Heather Herrman, The Corpse Queen

“You're responsible for your own life Penny," Taft says, "Even when things happen to you that you can't change, you're in control on how you handle those tough situations.”
― Rebecca Maizel, A Season for Fireflies

“I'll miss the fireflies, won't you?"
I nod and say, "Yeah but they're done here. They've moved on to someone else.”
― Rebecca Maizel, A Season for Fireflies

“I hug her for the little girl in my bedroom.
I hug her for the times I wished she had looped her arms around me and she did not.
I hug her for the times she will fail me in the future.”
― Rebecca Maizel, A Season for Fireflies

“To be brought back together, I needed to be reconciled. I had to lose myself in the shadows and find my wait back to the light.”
― Rebecca Maizel, A Season for Fireflies

“It's the rest of the world that needs fixing. You're perfect just as you are”
― Heather M. Herrman, The Corpse Queen

“Oh child," the dutchess winced, "No. Everyone has their on pain is all, especially the ones who give it.”
― Heather M. Herrman, The Corpse Queen

“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I've loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
― Holly Black , The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“The only way to end grief was to go through it.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite proud of themselves.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Hazel never cried. She was forged from iron; she never broke.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“When you live in defiance of yourself, you can adapt to your circumstances, but remnants of who you are at your core remain. A bit of wildness that can’t be tamed.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“This story is jagged, could cut a deep wound. It isn’t a story I can tell with a thread and a needle, stitching in clean lines. It’s shards or nothing.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Most children can’t imagine their mothers having a life before them, but for my sisters and me, it was the opposite. The wedding day was always the end of her story. We were the epilogue.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“It’s easier to say that women like my mother are crazy. Then you don’t have to listen to them. And so maybe in a way she became crazy. Maybe she could communicate only by screaming.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“Syvia Wren is a ghost ...What a terrible thing to be a ghost while still alive.”
― Sarai Walker, The Cherry Robbers

“I grew up thinking monsters could be slain."
"Ah," he said. "And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“It was the strangest things, how happiness came out of nowhere and inflated your soul.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

“I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to protect you. I’m sorry I never got to tell you. I’m sorry I never kissed you.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“Why should I be scared of an oversized bat who likes to throw temper tantrums?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“My wife was on a visit to her aunt's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street.
'Why,' said I, glancing up at my companion, 'that was surely the bell? Who could come tonight? Some friend of yours, perhaps?'
'Except yourself I have none,' he answered. 'I do not encourage visitors.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips

“I have come for advice."
"That is easily got."
"And help."
"That is not always so easy.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Five Orange Pips

“- I have come for advice.
- That is easily got.
- And help.
- That is not always so easy.

#The Five Orange Pips”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo