M > M's Quotes

“It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy us, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we could.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“We’re all entitled to a bad day now and again, I heard Gran say in my head. But when they are all bad days, with no pleasant ones, then it’s time to reconsider things.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“It's comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do[.]”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“If you can't get rid of the bad, you have to top it up with more goody stuff.”
― Fredrik Backman, [My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry] [By: Fredrik Backman] [June, 2015]

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“...I might crave peace, but never a cage of comfort.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Amren put a hand above Nesta's heart. "That's the key, isn't it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it... that's the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder." She gestured to the stars zooming past. "The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Heart racing, Nesta lifted the lantern in one hand and gazed at the darkness, untouched by the light from the library high, high above. The heart of the world, of existence. Of self.

The heart of the House.

'This...' Her fingers tightened on the lantern. 'This darkness is your heart.'

As if in answer, the House laid a little evergreen sprig at her feet.

'A Winter Solstice present. For me.

She could have sworn warm hands brushed her neck in answer. 'But your darkness...' Wonder softened her voice. 'You were trying to show me. Show others. Who you are, down deep. What haunts you. You were trying to show them all those dark, broken pieces because the priestesses, and Emerie, and I... We're the same as you.'

Her throat constricted at what the House had gifted her. This knowledge.

She lifted the lantern higher and blew out its flame.

Let the darkness sweep in. Embraced it.

'I'm not afraid,' she whispered into it. 'You are my friend, and my home. Thank you for sharing this with me.'

Again, Nesta could have sworn that phantom touch caressed her neck, her cheek, her brow.

'Happy Solstice,' she said into the beautiful, fractured darkness.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

“Being in love, she concluded, is simply the presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone. Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure, she thought, another chance in life.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

“We are, none of us, a single set of destinies set by the accident of our birth. We can change and be changed. Our bodies know the language they must speak to make us the people we must become.”
― Emily St. James, Woodworking