Emma > Emma's Quotes

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
― Amy Bloom, Away

“And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They were sitting on opposite sides of the board, playing each other in hopes of gaining the same prize.”
― Lisa Maxwell, The Last Magician

“Some guy on the radio called us the “lost generation” the other day. I wanted to find a payphone and a few quarters and tell that fool that we aren’t lost at all.

We’re exactly where they put us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Rising Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection

“My words are unerring tools of
destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
― Sophocles, Antigone