Julia > Julia's Quotes

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“He didn’t believe in God anymore and yet he still wished that God would help him.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Zendagi migzara,” he said. Life goes on.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Relationships never provide you with everything. They provide you with some things. You take all you want from a person - sexual chemistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty - and you get to pick three of them.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I don’t remember it happening. I don’t remember anything I’ve done, or why. Everything’s very confused.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Am Ende nützt es mir doch, wenn mir irgend etwas schadet.”
― Heinrich der Glîchezâre, Reinhart Fuchs

“Miracles are statistical improbabilities. And fate is an illusion humanity uses to comfort itself in the dark. There are no absolutes in life, save death.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Doch manchmal zog die Dunkelheit die Dunkelheit an, weil man einfach jemanden brauchte der verstand.”
― Kelly Moran, Benediction

“Ich weiß, dass Du am Ende Deiner Kräfte bist. Aber bitte halte noch ein bisschen durch. Für uns. Für Dich selbst.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Our only kiss was like an accident- a beautiful gasoline rainbow.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Alles um sie herum war schwarz, doch sie konnte das Etwas ganz in der Nähe hören. Tausende sich überlagernder Stimmen wie die raschelnden Seiten eines Buches, jede einzelne so gedämpft wie der Atemzug eines Sterbenden.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Children of the Nameless

“Du kannst deinen Kindern nichts beibringen, was du selbst nicht in dir hast", sagte Katrina. "Sie lernen, was sie sehen." Ich zog die Augenbrauen zusammen. "Also war es in Ordnung, dass Justus so war, weil er es nicht anders konnte?" "Natürlich nicht", antwortete Katrina. "Aber man muss schlauer sein als Justus, um zu begreifen, dass man sich ändern kann, und zu lernen, wie.”
― Christina Henry, Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

“I had predicated my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I’d come to realize that extraordinary is everywhere.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves

“If you try hard, you will always see results, and it will never be wasted no matter what you end up doing in life.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“She wasn't mine to take, but I was taking her anyway. Her laughs, her fears, her joy and her pain. Every inch of her body and beat of her heart. All mine.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“Moreover, in a hundred years, I thought, reaching my own doorstep, women will have ceased to be the protected sex. Logically they will take part in all the activities and exertions that were once denied them. The nursemaid will heave coal. The shop-woman will drive an engine. All assumptions founded on the facts observed when women were the protected sex will have disappeared—as, for example (here a squad of soldiers marched down the street), that women and clergymen and gardeners live longer than other people. Remove that protection, expose them to the same exertions and activities, make them soldiers and sailors and engine-drivers and dock labourers, and will not women die off so much younger, so much quicker, than men that one will say, “I saw a woman today,” as one used to say, “I saw an aeroplane.” Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation,”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

“Only quiet is a different beast when it finds you. A perfect kind of thing until you have it and it turns on you.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations