Elaina > Elaina's Quotes

“It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.”
― Shannon Hale, The Forgotten Sisters

“When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.”
― Julie Klassen, The Silent Governess

“Maybe it’s ok to do something wrong if you’re doing it for the right reason.”
― Janae Marks, From the Desk of Zoe Washington

“The point of education is to learn other ways too. Don't just assume that all you know is right. Learn more and then chose.”
― Shannon Hale, The Forgotten Sisters

“If the innocent are unjust, I'd rather be counted among the guilty."
-Valerie”
― Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

“Up here it seems we have only the stars, but even they seem small in the midst of that terrifying night sky...I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.”
― Leslye Walton, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.”
― Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

“What political favors were not ultimately about pig shit and how to get rid of it?”
― Idra Novey, Those Who Knew

“Crying is part of the adventure”
― Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

“You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"

I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“I would not willingly peel back the scar tissue protecting the deepest chambers of my heart and reveal the bruised hollows pooled with the blood of old wounds – the terror comes just thinking about it – but now, facing darkness I am left with no choice.
I love you, and because of that am going to try and raise the dead. – Louise Bell Closson, How It Ends”
― Laura Wiess, How It Ends

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“There is always magic. Even if you can't see it.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“It would have been better for her not to have such a heart".
Yes, but worse for the rest of us.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Well, one might just as well ask what the use of War is," the Dodo said philosophically. "There is no purpose. You just pull out your cards over and over again, and whoever has the most at the end wins."
"There is no purpose," the Hatter repeated darkly. "You just put your soldiers out over and over again, and whoever has the most bodies at the end wins.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“The feeling of desperation was fast becoming more like wishing to return to a book whose plot has just reached a climax when one is torn away by workday matters.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“A man cannot walk into the same river twice, for later he is not the same man and it is not the same river.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner