Sandra > Sandra's Quotes

“You care way too much about pleasing the people around you, especially your dad, who absolutely takes advantage of it. You become sleepy and basically useless past nine thirty at night. You have this odd belief that you cannot tell people how you really feel, or you’ll be saddling them with the weight of the world and they’ll leave you. But it’s okay. I see these things. I’ve always seen them, and I love you because of, not despite, them. Because they’re what makes you you.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Cruel Winter with You

“Over time, I formed my own coping strategies. All I could control was my behavior; I needed to be as considerate and high-achieving as possible, and if I accomplished that, maybe people would contemplate sticking around.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Cruel Winter with You

“I actually have a boyfriend.” “Nice. He can fuck off.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Cruel Winter with You

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Are we changing the subject because you're embarrassed that you were an Evil Overlord in Distress?”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“We're all monsters in the end. At least mine lives in the light.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Mas um matadouro, para mim, não é apenas desagradável: é o Inferno! Tenho de os ignorar para conseguir viver. Sabe que desvio os olhos das montras dos talhos, quando passo em frente? Tem noção do grau de insensibilidade a que tem de se chegar para trabalhar nesses sítios? Para onde vai o sangue que escorre de dentro desses cadáveres?
Para as entranhas da terra?”
― Isabela Figueiredo, Um Cão no Meio do Caminho

“Os animais são uma prioridade na minha vida. Não posso evitá-lo, tal como não posso evitar dormir ou lavar as mãos quando estão sujas.”
― Isabela Figueiredo, Um Cão no Meio do Caminho

“It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everybody was, especially me. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and than make the choice to share it with other people. You can't just sit their and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn't do or what they didn't know. I don't know. I guess there could always be someone to blame. It's just different. Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it's okay to feel things. I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite. I feel infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe’ is a hook to catch the unwary,” said Sumi. “Maybe it’s going to be better tomorrow. Maybe the snake won’t bite. Maybe the mushroom won’t be poisonous this time.”
― Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

“The world will drive a woman insane, then point at them and laugh.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“think it’s just easier to call someone crazy than it is to admit that they could be right. Easier to call someone crazy than to confront the nuance of their circumstance, than to accept the callous cruelty that exists in the world we live in, the evil out there that revels in our suffering.”
― Rachel Harrison, Play Nice

“I wanted you in fourth grade, when you launched me off that water pillow and broke two of my ribs,” he said, his eyes narrowed on me behind his glasses like he could still see us at the lake. “I wanted you in sixth grade, when I drove over your foot with my dad’s ATV. I wanted you when Mr. Pockets got hit by a car and you cried as hard as I did, I wanted you when you kissed the shit out of me in the shed, and now, God help me, I want you when you shattered my fucking heart to keep me from ruining my own future.”
― Lynn Painter, Fake Skating

“May the gods help me. Alaric resisted the urge to put his head in his hands in a fit of despair. I’m attracted to my wife.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Do you make it a habit to compliment everyone who's trying to kill you?"

"Not everyone." His eyes flashed with a hint of amusement. "Just you.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars