Casey Bee > Casey Bee's Quotes

“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“You could rattle the stars," she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“She thought of her children like the magic grow capsules you got at gift shops at the science museum. These tiny little nothings that you drop in water and then watch as they slowly reveal what they were always destined to be.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , Daisy Jones & The Six

“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn't have. I wouldn't have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“You can't control another person. It doesn't matter how much you love them. You can't love someone back to health and you can't hate someone back to health and no matter how right you are about something, it doesn't mean they will change their mind.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“It’s funny. At first, I think you start getting high to dull your emotions, to escape from them. But after a while you realize that the drugs are what are making your life untenable, they are actually what are heightening every emotion you have. It’s making your heartbreak harder, your good times higher. So coming down really does start to feel like rediscovering sanity. And when you rediscover your sanity, it’s only a matter of time before you start to get an inkling of why you wanted to escape it in the first place.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“People always try to explain the things they don’t understand, and convert them into a form that fits with their beliefs, so they can cope with them. Over time, these things become legend, folklore, perhaps even a religion.”
― Thorsten Brandl, The Palladium

“Love was the thing that tore you apart; it made you believe the lies you were told, obvious as they might be. It was nearly impossible to see your own fate while it was happening to you. It was only after, when what’s done had been done, that one’s vision cleared.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Love could ruin your life or set you free; it could happen by chance or be a well-planned decision.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Love is what you make of it, and she had made it her undoing.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“When you fall in love like that, time doesn’t matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“This is how you begin in this world. These are the lessons to be learned. Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Always love someone who will love you back.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage,”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“She had been wrong about love. She had thought it was meant for fools alone, only to discover it was a fool who walked away from love, no matter the cost or the penalty.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“It was so much easier to see another person’s future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“What you wind up regretting aren’t the things you do, it’s what you don’t do that you will never forgive yourself for.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“This is what love was, you stayed when you wanted to run away. You held on when you knew you had no choice but to let go.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it’s what you feel inside that counts, it’s what you know without anyone telling you.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic