Kristen C > Kristen's Quotes

“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.”
― George Santayana

“There would be too much everything and not enough anything, and then where would that leave us?”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“We glared at each other then, with the kind of hatred that comes from being deliberately wounded in one’s softest, most vulnerable places by a person who used to love you passionately.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“Single women could work all they wanted; married women locked themselves into a gilded cage. All of that had seemed natural before. Now, it made me angry. Now, I saw how a woman might sometimes want to steer her own course rather than trail her husband like a favored dog.”
― Therese Anne Fowler, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

“None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“If the good stand by idle, are they still good?”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“She looked over at her brother and knew without doubt he was the color to her shade.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“He’s six. He does not know what he wants. He does not know a world beyond the immediate.” “And you?” “I know too much.”
― Chris Whitaker, We Begin at the End

“For all stories have an ending as well as a beginning. But a beginning is where you choose to plant your foot, and the ending is only the edge of one's own knowledge.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

“Do not get distracted. Do not linger. You are a warrior, and warriors know when to pick their fights.'
I nodded, our breath mingling.
Rhys growled. 'They took what is ours. And we do not allow those crimes to go unpunished.'
His power rippled and swirled around me.
'You do not fear,' Rhys breathed. 'You do not falter. You do not yield. You go in, you get her, and you come out again.'
I nodded again, holding his stare.
'Remember that you are a wolf. And you cannot be caged.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Franklin Meyer was a cunt, and not the gentleman kind. Franklin’s father was a cunt, too. As kids they were cuntlets. A line of cunts, each one cuntier than the last.” “I wonder what the collective term for—” “A cuntet,” Sammy said knowingly.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“If you learn from the times you go wrong, you can revel in the times you don’t.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Quickest way to shed ignorance is to read a book.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

“Best education you can get,” he said. “See through someone else’s eyes and you understand more of everything.”
― Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark