Grace Collins > Grace's Quotes

“I found it interesting that those who believed themselves righteous only ever cared about those who agreed with them, and were keen to let those who didn’t suffer whatever brutal fate. There seemed to me an inherent hypocrisy in faith itself.”
― Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

“The thing about grace is that you don’t deserve it. You can’t earn it. You can only accept it. Or not.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, These Silent Woods

“We can't make death fun, but we can make learning about it fun. Death is science and history, art and literature. It bridges every culture and unites the whole of humanity!”
― Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death

“To be fair, death is hard! We love someone and then they die. It feels unfair. Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

“Everybody has a mother, but not everybody has a mother’s love.”
― Alice Feeney, Good Bad Girl

“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Your child doesn’t owe you loyalty or obedience. You owe your child love and understanding, owe it unconditionally, and if you love them strongly enough, eventually that love may be returned.”
― Nick Cutter, The Deep

“In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

“A peace based on injustice…is a treacherous sleep whose waking is death. Your honor lies in waking out of it.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence

“People listen to someone online they’ve never met more than they do to their parents, teachers, doctors.”
― Natasha Preston, The Island

“Everyone and everything look so perfect online. In reality, people have issues, skin has texture, teeth don’t glow, and stomachs have rolls.”
― Natasha Preston, The Island

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“That’s because language doesn’t work to manipulate people into believing things they don’t want to believe; instead, it gives them license to believe ideas they’re already open to. Language—both literal and figurative, well-intentioned and ill-intentioned, politically correct and politically incorrect—reshapes a person’s reality only if they are in an ideological place where that reshaping is welcome.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

“How can I accept a world where over a million people will die this year for want of a cure that has existed for nearly a century?”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl