Katelyn Glass > Katelyn's Quotes

“Holy shit are we insignificant.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“And at one point, you thought gruel was a satisfactory meal, until you grew some teeth and found the rest of the world’s food waiting. Now cease this line of thinking. It does not serve to make you stronger.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“What you want to be doesn’t change what you are without work.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“He might be a weapon, but I’m a natural disaster.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Stone may not burn, but books do.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“What’s it like to go through life so self-assured?” “It’s…life.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I’m quickly learning it’s possible to love someone and not want to be with them at the same time.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House

“How the twentieth century hurtled away.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House

“The thing about progress is that it must remain progressive.”
― Dan Muhlstock, Domestic Beasts

“Otto says that as soon as people fall in love they’re already looking for a reason to hate each other. Because everyone you love is just another fragile pink joey, and cancer will eat them, or wolves, so no matter how much you hurt you’ll need to still look down at their dead body someday. On that day, your only comfort will be to say, “At least I won’t have to smell your horrid armpits anymore.” Or, “Thank goodness your ugly feet died with you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“And it crossed his mind how every Dorothy turns into the Wicked Witch.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“It’s having too many birthdays that kills most people, it is.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“If one settles for being loved, one must always be at the beck and call of others, and stay out of their black book, and thus retain that love no matter what the cost to one’s freedom.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“Otto says no one actually falls in love because you never meet the people driving the same speed as you. You only meet the boring slowpokes or the crazed speed demons, and when you marry one or the other, you can kiss romance good-bye.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“A trick of fake fakes faking their fakery,”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“History, Grandfather tells us, is always planned out well ahead of time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“We’re bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“If not forever, but for now.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“It’s all a great mystery, this religious business.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant. I imagine you do give Kathy love—in the true sense of the word. Whether or not she is capable of giving it back to you is another question.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“That I’ve denied I want children, pretending I have no interest in them, that all I care about is my art. And it’s not true. It’s just an excuse—the truth is I’m scared to have kids. I am not to be trusted with them.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“But there’s a point of diminishing returns, where you’ve achieved what you set out to achieve. You keep setting goals, finding new mountains to climb, but the new mountains start to look a lot like the old ones. And sometimes you wonder why you climb mountains at all.”
― Sophie Lark, Minx

“(I don’t always get tenses right. Everything always feels like it’s happening now and sometimes I forget it actually happened then.)”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“I judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street

“If Parisa hadn’t already been aware how little men cared for evidence of female frustration, she might have grimaced.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Libby, the fringed girl whose anxieties were so prickly”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Libby, the fringed girl whose anxieties were so prickly and unceasing they set Callum’s teeth on”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six