Favorites Quotes

“Curiouser and curiouser.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Sharing a room with the person you want most is like sharing a room with an open fire.

He's constantly drawing you in. And you're constantly stepping too close. And you know it's not good--that there is no good--that there's absolutely nothing that can ever come of it.

But you do it anyway.
And then...
Well. Then you burn.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist.

We are one long frightening climax.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I told you she was doing all four of 'em.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.”
― Audrey Niffenegger , The Time Traveler's Wife

“I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.”
― Judith McNaught, Something Wonderful

“I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“Dude, you're a vampire. EVERY day sucks for you.”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn't possibly choose.”
― Nicole Yatsonsky

“Lesson #456 of high school life:
Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“I kissed Ryan, and it charged him up like a freaking Duracell.”
― Kelly Oram, Being Jamie Baker

“Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“Haven’t you ever done something you regretted when you woke up the next morning?” Steven asked.
I didn’t want to tell him how many times.”
― M S M Barkawitz, Feeling Lucky

“In a perfect world we shouldn’t settle for a relationship that won’t let us be ourselves.”
            Is that from a book or a shrink?”
            Can we table the sarcasm?”
I’m sorry . . . I just wish it was as simple as the Kraft Mayonnaise-Miracle Whip controversy we never resolved.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“How can an innocent child effortlessly carry such burdens on his shoulders? It’s almost like he’s having a chat with the ancient sages about universal truths. I’ll go on record that he’ll be an incredible sculptor if that’s what he wants to be. Creative types with that kind of vision see their spirits with crystal clearness,” offered Starla.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Through the open drapes behind the nightstand, moonlight pouring through shadowy leaves fell haphazardly on the plastic bag full of shattered memories of his wife. He sat down on the bed, a dark silent gaze spreading over his face. Opening the bag released the flowery scent of licorice and violets—Summer’s signature perfume, Lolita Lempicka. He remembered she always said the aroma reminded her of childhood lullabies, fairies, and magic kingdoms. Matt buried his face in the tattered polo shirt she was wearing that day inhaling the faint trail of his lost love.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“  “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey does not speak Arabic. Someone wrote this cover page in Arabic.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“A wise man, my father, always said, a bitter root bears bitter fruit and then he’d point to the crucifix on the mantel adding . . . he’s the only one who had the right to be bitter and wasn’t.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it.”
― Germany Kent

“Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.”
― Heather Brewer, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod Journal

“This love is so deep it cannot be undone.”
― Rebecca Maizel, Stolen Nights

“I stay because there is an extraordinary difference between thinking of you and seeing you in the mortal flesh. I stay for the one moment you smile throughout the day. Or to watch you run your hand through your hair. Because I must, must –" his breath was short – "must be near you, in any way I can.”
― Rebecca Maizel, Stolen Nights

“I am being watched. My stalker is smart, just like I would be.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“I'd leave all my haters in my motherfucking dust.”
― Lee Matthew Goldberg, Stalker Stalked

“How do we do this? Do I have to bite you?" I ask, squirming uncomfortably at the thought of doing so.

"Why, do you want to? If so, by all means go right ahead. I doubt I'd mind much," he laughs. "No, no biting. You watch too many movies.”
― Jessa L. Gilbert, Origins