D > D's Quotes

“Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?'
'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Poetry helps heal wounds.
Makes them tangible.

At the poetry reading I read
a poem.
A prophecy I wrote down.
Almost couldn't go through with it.

But it came out
hurried and hot
and by the end
my tongue was on fire.”
― Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket

“This skin thing always pisses me off. What I need is a nopal on my forehead to let the world know about my roots. One of those flat cactus plants that my grandpa grew behind the house before he died--nopal en la frente. Yup. That would solve all my problems.”
― Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

“Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory”
― Mizuo Shinonome, Princess TuTu, Vol. 1

“I'm not a delicate flower that you should fear crushing in your palm."
"No, you're delicate like a bomb.”
― K.A. Linde, The Wren in the Holly Library