Tessa > Tessa's Quotes

“ Wait and see. The world is not always cruel.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“You're nobody's rainbow.
You're nobody's princess.
You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
― Seanan mcguire , Every Heart a Doorway

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“I don't know which is worse - suffering or the memory of it. Memory, perhaps, because it does not end.”
― Catriona Ward, Little Eve

“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“We are never more ourselves than when we think people aren’t watching.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“As long as I'm with you, I know exactly who I am.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Fucked up will save you. Fucked up will set you free.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“This, maybe, was the worst part: the whole world was out to kill you both. Your bodies have always been abject. You were dropped from the boat of the world, climbed onto a piece of driftwood together, and after a perfunctory period of pleasure and safety, she tried to drown you. And so you aren't just mad, or heartbroken: you grieve from the betrayal.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Big dick energy is gender-neutral”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“How did you get a demon in your chicken?'

'The usual way. Couldn't put it in the rooster. That's how you get basilisks.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Cats don't drink cocktails,' I said.

'Cats don't shoot lasers from their eyes, either, but here we are, Carl. Mama needs a night off.”
― Matt Dinniman, Carl's Doomsday Scenario

“There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

“No one will be spared when the wolf comes home.”
― Nat Cassidy, When the Wolf Comes Home

“The world is changing, you know. A pity you aren’t ready to live in it.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Trauma does that, I thought. It’s an explosion with your heart at the center. It changes everything all at once.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Butcher's Masquerade

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“...and though the world may be damned as a result, what's the world even worth without the one person Bagger wants in it”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down