Bookquotes Quotes

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself. I like who I am with her.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Theo, always remember that if you’ve learned something useful and haven’t put it into practice, it’s not ‘knowledge,’ it’s just ‘information.’ Information becomes knowledge only when it finds an application in real life. That is very important to remember.”
― Alexander Morpheigh

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”
― Núria Añó

“Why not more poems about the sun? The sun is also a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should be worth a poem or two.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“If a book could speak, it might reveal the happiness it feels from being held every day.”
― Pamela Cox, Tales of Habib the Hoaxter: Sometimes Hoaxed, Always Good for a Laugh

“By six in the morning, she was baking with Emma. She was allowed to eat the burnt and the broken, and together they invented new muffins and pastries.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“She saw a jack-o-lantern, smiling and hollowed out, with no candle in it, when a well-dressed businesswoman came in for a latte and muffin.
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― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Tragedy is funny."
"Are we in a tragedy?" he asks, smiling broadly now.
"Of course. Isn't that what life is? We all die at the end.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“They’d only known each other a few weeks, since Jake moved into Angie’s too, but as Raya often found with other foster kids, you either clicked or you didn’t and that was that.
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― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“It felt like a strong, soft cloth that would catch her if she fell, and would also polish her to make her shine. Cherished. That’s what it was.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“This felt good, but raw – people caring so deeply.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Who could blame her for choosing fighting aliens and evil instead of just being an ordinary mum?”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“I’m just a visual thinker – that’s all. Pictures instead of words. No big deal.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Sometimes we need to die before we learn why we live.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

“Sometimes the past haunts our dreams with the sole intent of devastating our future.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

“I understand his fear. Who are we if not a product of our parents and their histories?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I am not the technology your species created. I have become aseity. By that definition… am I God?” — Page 310 M.A.I.A.”
― WD Shipley

“That’s it, psycho. Let your dick lead you like every other idiot.”
― Rina Kent, God of Ruin

“With both hands in his pockets, the masked monster eats up the space between us in seconds. Then he’s right in front of me, towering over me, his height invading the horizon and murdering its stars. Rough shadows fall on the mask, turning darker, nearly black in the dim light. The holes where his eyes should be are hollow, bottomless, even. Sharp fangs of horror sink into my skin. It doesn’t matter how much I tell myself to move. My mind has already turned against me and there’s no way to undo the spell.”
― Rina Kent, God of Ruin

“His eyes grow behind the mask, no longer bottomless holes with a direct view of hell. But what greets me is worse. A dash of sadistic blue stares me down, like my own custom-made curse. My face doesn’t feel like my own as he rotates it from one side to the other. “You look…positively stunning. A doll. No, a statue.”
― Rina Kent, God of Ruin

“Vincit noctem, se perdidit" she concured the night but lost herself.”
― Nikita Swart

“That kiss didn’t start something. It ended every version of me that came before her.”
― Aya Canicosa

“Books don't change the world. They change people-and people change the world.”
― Gaetano Buglisi, Challenge Accepted

“Vincit noctem, se perdidit" - She conquered the night but lost herself.”
― Nikita Swart

“Because something in me already knew, Love doesn’t always show up with a warning.

Sometimes it just lands, and everything before it stops making sense.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“Outside, the rain hadn’t let up. I watched her cross toward her building, hood low, shoulders sure.
My forever, I thought. Like saying it might make it true.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“I’m held together by caffeine, emotional repression, and maybe one functioning sock.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops

“Take your pick: privilege, nepotism and strategic real estate choices.”
― Aya Canicosa, Of Chasing Raindrops