Taylor Fenner > Taylor's Quotes

“I was just trying to give you the teen-male perspective."

"Which is?"

"If it moves, screw it.”
― Lisa Jackson, Ready to Die

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

“I try to write characters that are normal, believable people with a unique sense of humor. I like characters that aren't necessarily society's idea of "perfect". I wanted to make characters that were more real. I want my potential readers to see that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. I want them, especially the girls, to realize that whatever you look like, whether you’re chubby or skinny, dark haired or blonde, popular or the school outcast, that everyone deserves to be loved. And that if you look hard enough, there’s someone out there waiting just for you.”
― Taylor Fenner

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
― Washington Irving

“Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.”
― Rosemary Clement-Moore, Texas Gothic

“Don't let the hard days win.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I'd catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I'd seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I'd realize that you weren't there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me why we don't belong together," he said fiercely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“We can’t define people by their worst actions.”
― Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened

“Love is the kind of thing you have to nurture and care for. You can’t just lock it up in some faraway place if you want it to last.”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

“Monsters don’t get happy endings.”
― Paula Stokes, Ferocious

“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“I'd love nothing more than to study the ink covering him from the waist up, tracing the lines and shapes with my fingers and tongue.”
― Taylor Fenner, Headless

“Make sure the man you choose sees you as you truly are and loves you for it.”
― C.J. Redwine, Defiance

“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“If I told you monsters could be tamed, would you want to live with monsters? Even a tame monster is still a monster.”
― Julie Eshbaugh, Crown of Oblivion: A Gripping YA Survival Fantasy About a Cutthroat Race for Freedom

“Her head was pressed against his chest and she could hear the erratic beat of his heart, its pulse matching her own. She felt it too—the exhilaration, and underneath it the thin electrifying undercurrent of fear, at the forbiddenness of what they were about to do.”
― Katharine McGee, The Thousandth Floor

“Don’t worry, Highness. Most men will marry anyone for a title, even the most horrifying creature they could behold.”
― Taylor Fenner, Monsters & Mist

“And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six