Shreya > Shreya 's Quotes

“History is who we are,” I say finally. “The past shapes us. Even the parts you can’t remember.”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

“Not the end.
Far from it.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Be a light in the dark.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“And you're not lost?"
"Maybe I am. But the difference is that I want to be found. I'm not happy pretending everything is fine when I know it's not."
"And just who is it that you suppose will find you?"
"It'll be me. I will find myself.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I feel like I need to speak out, because if no one speaks out, if no one says, this is me, this is what I believe in, and this is why I’m different, and this is why that’s okay, then what’s the point? What’s the point of living in this beautiful, great melting pot where everyone can dare be anything they want to be?”
― Sandhya Menon, When Dimple Met Rishi

“Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“I tell myself that I love this skin, that I've always loved my blackness, that if the world doesn't love me, I will love myself for the both of us.”
― Jay Coles, Tyler Johnson Was Here

“The world is a turntable that never stops spinning; as humans we merely choose the tracks we want to sit out and the ones that inspire us to dance.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

“I've had a lot of things to feel ashamed about and I've learned most of them are other people's problems, not mine.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

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

“Every superhero has an origin story. Every villain has an origin story. Every loser has an origin story, too.”
― David Yoon, Super Fake Love Song

“History, huh?”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Is that . . . is that a fucking pigeon?”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Don't feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“You can't tell whether people are gay by what they look like. And gay or straight aren't the only two options.”
― Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Volume One

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

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

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I wish I were a cow. Wish I could find some joy in the monotony of ranch life.”
― Elsie Silver, Hopeless

“Thanks for having me, Mrs. Graham.” “Oh, call me Hannah, please,” she insists. Her husband offers a deceptively pleasant smile. “And you can call me Mr. Graham.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Graham Effect

“Not looking after yourself is a form of violence.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter