Marie Burton > Marie's Quotes

“But this is war. We don’t have the luxury of good ideas—only picking between the bad ones.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“This book will take us down a spiral from which there will be no return.”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

“All darkness needs to spread is for a bunch of people to stand around and do nothing. You know that.”
― Billy Coffey, The Curse of Crow Hollow

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“But hear me on this. What I believe? It means very little unless you believe it, too.”
― K.E. Ganshert, The Gathering

“It was not following the Law that brought them eternal life but purifying your heart and receiving the good news Jesus brought concerning the kingdom of heaven.”
― Diana Wallis Taylor, Mary Magdalene

“Oh, I hope I don’t teach. Because look what we did: we saved the zoo animals and the nice children, and we damned the afflicted and the blacks. You know what I do every day in that classroom? I do everything in my power to make sure those poor souls won’t learn the obvious lesson.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave is Forgiven

“Faith doesn’t mean checking your brain at the door of every church or throwing all you think you know out some stained-glass window. It means trusting. I have to trust now. It’s all I have.”
― Billy Coffey, There Will Be Stars: A Novel

“No problem is too large, when Jesus is in charge. No gift is too small, if you give Him your all.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Jesus in the Present Tense: The I AM Statements of Christ

“Technology fills her days. It makes waiting for death a little more bearable.”
― Sofia Lundberg, The Red Address Book

“Despite my best homicidal fantasies, I wasn’t a murderer. I couldn’t kill him. I’d have to think of something cleverer than that.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I’m fine,” said Inej. Jesper rolled his eyes. “You always say that.” “Isn’t that how things are done around here?” asked Wylan. “We all tell Kaz we’re fine and then do something stupid?” “Are we that predictable?” said Inej. Wylan and Matthias said in unison, “Yes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“She been trying to read for the past two hours—trying and failing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Every bite tasted like ash.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“His voice was hard, edged with the clash of shields and the scream of arrows.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

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

“needed to store fat as if I were a bear about to enter hibernation. Luckily—or unluckily—it stored a lot of it in the chest area. And in the hips. And the thighs. Whatever.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury

“Gansey. That’s all there is. Once she’d seen his death laid out for him, and seen that he was real, and found out that she was meant to have a part in it, there had never been a chance she would just stand by and let it happen.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“A secret killed your father, and you know what it was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Their parents had killed multiple people. They’d done the most cruel and vile things anyone could do to another person. And so much of it had happened right before their eyes.”
― Gregg Olsen, If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

“Besides, if they were going to be killed it would be better to be killed together, otherwise she’d have to explain to Lamb why Caitlin was murdered and she wasn’t.”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

“Let’s say your life depended on it. You have to choose or you’ll die.” “Which one would you choose?” Caitlin said. “I asked you first.” “Okay,” Caitlin said. “I guess I’d take Von.” Good, Vix thought. Because she had already chosen Bru for herself.”
― Judy Blume, Summer Sisters

“Got caught up in the great American myth, the Puritan ethic of nose-to-the-grindstone-and-thou-shalt-prevail. That was back when I thought the playing field was even, before I learned that it was not flat at all; and that, in fact, for most people not born into privilege, the playing field is a steep incline and you are at the bottom with boulders tied to your ankles.”
― Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

“doubt it. I am a category 5 hurricane coming her way, and she has no clue.”
― Janelle Brown, Pretty Things

“Passion leads to fierce heartbreak, Rhoda. You might think twice about how badly you wish for it.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“Friends don’t let friends go to gentleman’s clubs alone when someone is trying to kill them.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“What I also have come to see is that the Myriam are the angels who can help us awaken our sacred/holy vision and see the world through the eyes of Christ. When I refer to Christ, I do mean Jesus, but I also mean more than Jesus. I believe that Jesus was a man and a vehicle for an energy called Christ. Christ energy is a powerful unified energy”
― Kyle Gray, Angel Prayers: Harnessing the Help of Heaven to Create Miracles