A G > A's Quotes

“Malnourished hearts will feast on anything that resembles love.”
― Monty Jay, The Blood We Crave: Part One

“I will love you to ruination.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“I will love you to ruination,” the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my cheek. “Yours or mine?” I asked. The Fairy King did not answer.”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“This is black,” he said. “Fear, falling, release. Excitement, risk, danger.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“The world respected people who didn’t crave approval.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“Abuse can feel like love.”
“Abuse can feel like love…Why?”
Damon remained so still it didn’t look like he was breathing. He looked at the teacher, unwavering. “Starving people will eat anything.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet