Laura Schlesinger > Laura's Quotes

“Memento Mori. Remember that you will die.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“It's the strangest feeling to be proud simply because I'm taking care of me and mine. Is this what it's like to grow up?”
― Christina Lauren, The Unhoneymooners

“Darkness craves light as much as it wants to destroy it,”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you’ll never reach higher than their limited imagination.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“Those therapists didn’t get it. I didn’t want to heal. I wanted to burn. I wanted to bleed. I wanted to feel every scorching lick of pain.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“This is why we shall not love more than we need to. Death will come for everyone in the end—”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“She could save herself the agony of hope.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Do I dazzle you?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Nothing is all good or all bad,” she says. “Life is so much messier than that.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Take your echoes and pretend they are a voice.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Even rocks wear away to nothing.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“the greatest danger in change is letting the new replace the old.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“To find a way, or make your own.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It is sad to forget. But it's a lonely thing to be forgotten.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It is the kind of day designed for wood fires, and mugs of tea, and well-loved books.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“The rise isn't worth the fall.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“The human imagination is often disastrous when left to its own devices.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I've searched the world for all the right words and my mouth is full of nothing.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“People can think whatever they like....I don't desire their validation.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me