Kat > Kat's Quotes

“There is no failure in love,”
“In this, I am complete.”
― Rebecca Ross, A River Enchanted

“if people belonged together in the true timeline, then our timeline tries to repair itself by bringing them together.”
― Vanessa Len, Only a Monster

“Home is a choice."
"It does not matter what you want - the one way out is to be wanted by someone else.”
― V. E. Schwab, Gallant

“Shove down weakness, and strength will rise.”
― Raven Kennedy, Gleam

“Shove down weakness, and strength will rise...”
― Raven Kennedy, Glint

“Because he was brave and strong, and he felt and thought deeply. He’d suffered losses and survived and continued to do so even with the agony I knew he carried with him."
"lust was not love, it was not loyalty, and it was not long lasting.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“Love is not supposed to be beautiful. It’s supposed to be a raw, gritty struggle that forces you to face the most vulnerable parts of yourself, so that when the good times come, you can savor and enjoy them, fully appreciate what they’re worth. Otherwise, you take it all for granted. —Lana Myers”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red

“Choose me."
"He will never choose me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“Don't chase fate, Mina. Let fate chase you."
" love can't be bought or earned or even prayed for. It must be freely given.”
― Axie Oh, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

“What’s it like?” I asked curiously. “Finding your one true love?” Gabriel’s gaze softened as he thought about the girl who owned his heart and he smiled as he answered. “Like, getting hit with a truck and having it back over you several times while you lay bleeding in the dirt.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“I didn’t mean to spook you,” Lara said. “I’m not spooked,” he said. He meant to follow it up with I’m married, but what came out was different. “I’m Laconian.”
― James S.A. Corey, Auberon

“You want too much, Will."
These thefts, this art. A future unfolding. "What's wrong with wanting everything?" he asked.
The lights flickered on. If anyone had walked into the museum now, all they would see were these two siblings, faces turned not toward each other but to the art surrounding them. "Nothing," Irene said, but her voice was soft as a warning, "as long as you know how to get it.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

“What's wrong with wanting everything?
Nothing, as long as you know how to get it.”
― Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

“Perhaps you enjoy being beaten," she replied, with a nod at his bruised face.
"Perhaps I wish I could be," he said, with more honesty than he'd intended.
Blodeuyn stared at him for a few heartbeats and Fane let out a breath. He was used to speaking with double-edged words, to using truths as both shield and weapon. Humans did not speak in such a manner - they either lied or they didn't.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

“Mer had always considered herself a decent judge of liars. But she had forgotten it was possible to lie without ever uttering an untruth.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

“A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers. They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Nice comes to us by way of the Old French nice ('weak, clumsy, silly'), from the Latin nescius ('ignorant, not knowing').”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Fates were always fighting the urge to be that which they were made to be.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Time is but memory in the making. - Vladimir Nabokov
We are homesick most for the places we have never known. - Carson McCullers
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. - Ray Cummings
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, 1984
When a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past… All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-five
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“The faster you go, the less time you experience.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I would like to die by nitrogen asphyxiation. All my research shows it is among the least painful ways to die."
The suffocation reflex come from excess carbon dioxide in the lungs, not lack of oxygen.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Adjust orbit while stupid. Good plan." I snicker. "New word: 'sarcasm.'You say opposite of true meaning to make point. Sarcasm".”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Work fast."
"Yeah." I point at the screen. "First I have to wait for my computer to wake up."
"Hurry."
"Okay, I'll wait faster."
"Sarcasm.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“Hate is tiring. Nihilism is easier, though she does not know the word and will not for a few years. It's what she's feeling, regardless: an overwhelming sense of the meaningless of it all.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Obelisk Gate

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Never trust a survivor,” my father used to warn me, with Vartan Mamigonian in mind, “until you find out what he did to stay alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“I think," how says slowly, "that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Power, of course. To know oneself, one's limits and abilities, is its own power. To know how one may best subdue another with similar abilities is another.”
― S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

“Officer K:... a stray dog - if you try to grab it, it might bite you. But if you are careful, you might be able to persuade it to come to you.
Officer S: If you know what it eats.
Officer K: Correct. And I think in this case, respect was the right bait, so to speak... Citing repercussions rather than restrictions - a choice without an acceptable outcome.”
― Veronica Roth, Chosen Ones