David James > David's Quotes

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”
― Joseph Conrad

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Truth doesn’t set you free, it shifts your world into something else entirely until you’re back to this: Who am I now that I know who I should be?”
― David James, Light of the Moon

“And being brave doesn’t always mean you need to fight to win your battles; there are different kinds of strengths. Sometimes bravery comes from letting your heart make choices your mind cannot.”
― David James, Light of the Moon

“Standing at the edge of the dark forest, he kissed me.
The forest shook, trembled. Where snow touched the trees, white flecks rose into the air and danced on the hands of the wind. Branches waved. Trees swayed, bending to almost break.
Or maybe it was me, us. Maybe it was us moving while the rest of the world stood still.”
― David James, The Witch's Curse

“Those words.
Samuel’s thirteen words became heartbeats-
became my reasons to breathe in-
and out of that moment.
More than blood, I wanted him.
I whispered, “Why did you want to know my name?”
“Because my heart needed a name to beat to.”
I grinned. “Is your heart always so delirious?”
“Would it be a heart if it was anything else?”
― David James, The Witch's Curse

“I said, “But I am, Samuel. I am cursed. You’ve seen my mother. You know that is my destiny.”
“I know,” he said. “But Magda? Look up at the stars one last time before this night becomes day.”
I turned and felt the world below me drift away until the only thing I saw was a vast ocean of night and stars and moon.
Samuel’s lips touched my neck, softly.
He whispered, “The stars shine so brightly before they die, Magda. And even after they blink away, we can still see them. Stars don’t fade like people do. In ways, they are forever pieces of an infinite sky. We are the same, Magda. You are my star, and I am yours. There might be a piece of our forever that we cannot see, but we must believe it’s there, waiting at the end.”
― David James, The Witch's Curse

“There is nothing unnatural about loving, no matter who it is we love.”
― David James, The Warrior's Code

“Our entire lives are wars, our very breaths little fights with our fears and ambitions.”
― David James, The Warrior's Code

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Somewhere inside you is a story I want to read.”
― David James, Between the Stars and Sky