Kris Ritchie > Kris's Quotes

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Besides, when it came to being colorful...we invisible kids learned to carry our colors on the inside”
― Paul Dini, Dark Night: A True Batman Story

“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“I want to be so happy that bad memories aren’t following me around like unwanted shadows.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“There was a strange place, between knowing and not knowing. A place where things could live in the back of your head without weighing your heart.”
― V.E. Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Breathing in the ink and feeling all those wonderful lives beneath you fingertips. In between the pages, I'm an emperor. An adventurer. A warrior and a wanderer. In between pages I'm not myself-and more myself than in any other place on earth.”
― Jay Kristoff, LIFEL1K3

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

“When someone finally breathes your greatest fear out loud, giving it sharp corners that you can feel in your mouth...Well, it's hard to know what to say after that.”
― Kelly Thompson, Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter

“Words can be whispered bullet-quick when no one's looking, and words don't leave blood or bruises behind. Words disappear without a trace. That's what makes them so powerful. That's what makes them so important.
That's what makes them hurt so much.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“Their past is littered with the unburied bodies of the people they chose never to become.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“You can't skip to the end of the story just because you're tired of being in the middle. You'd never survive.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“She is his living mausoleum.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question is "Dude, why are we even fighting in the first place?”
― Ryan North, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 1: Squirrel Power

“Forget about homework and you get in trouble with your teacher. Forget about taxes and you get in trouble with your government...But forget about hate and you know what happens? You just don't hate someone anymore.”
― Ryan North ; Erica Henderson, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 8: My Best Friend's Squirrel

“The world doesn't stop spinning because you're sad, and that's good; if it did, people would go around breaking hearts like they were sheets of maple sugar, just to keep the world exactly where it is. They'd make it out like it was a good thing, a few crying children in exchange for a peace that never falters or fades. We can be sad and we can be hurt and we can even be killed, but the world keeps turning, and the things we're supposed to do keep needing to be done.”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“The best stories are bled.”
― A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“Easy to stay on the path when the road is straight and the steps are numbered.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“That time always ends a second before you’re ready.

That life is the minutes you want minus one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue