Ellie Rose McKee > Ellie's Quotes

“Truth resists simplicity.”
― John Green

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“You are always a little bit wrong”
― Hank Green

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“The heat of her body seeped into his flesh, and there was no other word for how he felt other than lost. The woman in front of him could have him all – could take as much or as little of him as he wanted, the more the better – and he’d be honored.”
― Rose Blackman, Destiny

“Are you always a smartass?'

Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
― Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

“Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Grace costs you nothing”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World