Hannah Singh > Hannah's Quotes

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Design a flight of stairs for the day a nervous bride
descends them. Shape a window to frame a view of a
specific tree on a perfect day in autumn.”
― Matthew Frederick, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School

“All pictorial form begins with the point that sets itself in motion… The point moves … and the line comes into being—the first dimension. If the line shifts to form a plane, we obtain a two-dimensional element. In the movement from plane to spaces, the clash of planes gives rise to body (three-dimensional) … A summary of the kinetic energies which move the point into a line, the line into a plane, and the plane into a spatial dimension.”
― Francis D.K. Ching, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i am water

soft enough
to offer life
tough enough
to drown it away”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”
― Rupi Kaur

“he placed his hands
on my mind
before reaching
for my waist
my hips
or my lips
he didn't call me
beautiful first
he called me
exquisite

- how he touches me”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“fall
in love
with your solitude”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Meeting you was fate..
Becoming your friend was a choice..
But falling in love with you I had no control over.”
― Teresa Conroy

“Think of discomfort as currency- it's the price you pay to learn some pretty crucial things.”
― Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

“Words lie; actions can lie too. Consistency speaks the truth.”
― Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

“Procrastination is a hustlers worst enemy.”
― Lilly Singh, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life

“I feel awake when I’m with you, Poppy. You woke me up when I didn’t even know I was sleeping.”
― Jo Watson, Love You, Love You Not

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Rise, red as the dawn.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Flame and shadow. One cannot exist without the other.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“If you know someone's fear, you know them.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“What I need and what I want are two very different things.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“You should know the difference between secrets and lies.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Sometimes I forget you have the legs of a child."

"Better than the brain of one.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember