Pam > Pam 's Quotes

“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Don’t ever worry what the boys who don’t appreciate originality think of you. They’re fools.”
― Cat Winters, In the Shadow of Blackbirds

“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“Do you always travel with such cumbersome books?" "I don't trust anyone who wouldn't.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“He is a man without a past sailing in a strange sea in a world where the stars have come loose in the firmament.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“It's not a bad way to live once you let go of the idea that you deserve more.”
― J.J. Abrams, S.

“Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”
― Terry Pratchett, Dodger

“I need bruschetta (that's "broo-SKET-uh," not "brushetter," a slender piece of ciabatta toasted and brushed with garlic and oil and covered in fresh tomato and basil-- the chunks inevitably fall off the bread and the olive oil runs over your lips and down your chin. The whole thing is delicious, deeply physical and delightfully undignified, and a woman who can eat a real bruschetta is a woman you can love and who can love you. Someone who pushes the thing away because it's messy is never going to cackle at you toothlessly across the living room of your retirement cottage or drag you back from your sixth heart attack by sheer furious affection. Never happen. You need a woman who isn't afraid of a faceful of olive oil for that)”
― Nick Harkaway

“When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“She is something new, something hopeful. Like spring to my deep winter.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“The fleas would jump and jump to heights unknown. Then a man came along and upturned a glass jar over the fleas. The fleas jumped and hit the top of the jar and could go no farther. Then the man removed the jar and yet the fleas did not jump higher than they had grown accustomed, because they believed there to still be a glass ceiling.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Or perhaps they think I’m still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“So this kid is what? A predestined Alexander? A Caesar? A Genghis? A Wiggin?” I ask. “This is slagging nonsense.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

“My parents’ room is an uncataloged planet, a night sky presence unknown to scientists but feared by the secret faithful who trade rumors of its mystery.”
― John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van