Alex > Alex's Quotes

“Everyone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“A reading major, that's what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Only men can speak all day long and still think themselves silent.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker

“I don’t belong anywhere,” Corayne said, her voice failing. To her surprise, Sorasa cracked a smile. “There are plenty of people like that,” she said. “And nowhere is still a somewhere.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Realm Breaker

“I don’t care what everyone says, damaging books is worse than damaging people. People heal up. Books never do. The marks always show.”
― H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

“you know when you read a book, sometimes, and you suddenly realize that you’ve been missing something your whole life, and you weren’t even aware, and all at once you’ve found it and are just a little bit more whole?”
― H.G. Parry, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

“There was, she admitted, something wonderful about this. Storytelling was a fundamental impulse of humanity, as natural to the mind and body as eating and sleeping and falling in love. It made sense that everyone believed they could do it, because everyone who had ever been comforted by a story, or loved a character, or lived within a world of imagination, held a story world inside them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Better in Black