Niamh > Niamh's Quotes

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Far too many times I had asked myself whether art was imitating life or if it was the other way around.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I don't know, it's like I look at you and suddenly the sonnets makes sense. The good ones, anyway.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The real sky was enormous overhead, making our mirrors and twinkling stage lights seem ridiculous- Man’s futile attempt to imitate God”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“The water, too, was still, and I thought, what liars they are, the sky and the water. Still and calm and clear, like everything was fine. It wasn’t fine, and really, it never would be again.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“They would make this war, she thinks, if there were not a war already made for them to make.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Knowledge is carnage. You can’t have it without sacrifice.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“You're a fire hazard, Rhodes," he said. "So stop apologizing for the damage and just let the fucker burn.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Beware the man who faces you unarmed. If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“People were such delicate little playthings.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“There is no fate so final as betrayal. Trust, once dead, cannot be resurrected.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“The problem with knowledge [...] is its inexhaustible craving. The more you have it, the less you feel you know. [...] Thus, men often go mad in search of it.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Theoretically, men are a disaster. As a concept, I unequivocally reject them.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“The freedom of endless choices wasn't meant for human minds.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“The daily peace of loving plainly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“And just as she was about to leave the mircophone, she said 'And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don't chip your tooth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“People always craved power - that was a constant of humanity, a truer rule than any law of physics. If they weren't given power, they took it. And however lofty and moral their foundational creed, people historically did not choose to give it away.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Paradox

“Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History