Vanna Book-Mage > Vanna's Quotes

“…You are not defined by what you think you are supposed to be.”
― Hannah Birss, Thimble: A New Fairytale

“Love that seeks nothing in return always breaks. The human heart isn’t strong or pure enough for that,”
― Inori, I'm in Love with the Villainess (Light Novel), Vol. 2

“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
― Warsan Shire

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I wonder what it’s like to be with someone who can love you through your rage.”
― Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

“People think that intimacy is about sex.
But intimacy is about truth.
When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me”—that’s intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“See you in the story past the story.”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust

“Walk like you don’t care where your limbs are,’ Agnes said, doing a
much better job of it than Gwen. ‘As if it’s of no consequence to you where
they end up. Like this. See? Swing them about. And you should act, at all
times, as if your crotch is a burden.’

‘Now hang on,’ said Arthur. ‘I’m a man, and my crotch isn’t a burden.’

‘Maybe not to you,’ said Gwen. ‘But it’s a burden on the rest of
humanity.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“Nobody else is ever going to care as much as you do about the things that you want, Gwendoline. So it's up to you - you can put them aside forever, if you can live with that, or you can put on your big-girl girdle and demand more for yourself.”
― Lex Croucher, Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

“I’ve had many names, none of which you would recognize. I am the Night Mother. I am the last, wet gasp of a punctured lung. I am the quiet sound of blood cooling in dead veins. I am the end of all things, and all things that end are my domain.”
― Norris Black, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

“I first noticed I was missing on a Thursday.”
― Jeanne Ray, Calling Invisible Women

“Tell me the secret of the magic stick Doctor.”
― Simon Messingham, Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll