Gabrielle De Las Peñas > Gabrielle's Quotes

“Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but a sensation of abundant peace that washed over her. She thought of her entry into this world, the harami child of a lowly villager, an unintended thing, a pitiable, regrettable accident. A weed. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Miriam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad. This was a legitimate end to a life of illegitimate belongings.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“There is always light, if only your brave enough to see it. If only your brave enough to be it.”
― Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

“I can manage," said Frodo. "I must.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Because the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Love is a choice. It is the active choosing of good for another person. But like? It is a gift and it cannot be forced.”
― Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

“The thing about lipstick, the reason it’s so powerful, is that it is distracting. Men don’t see the flashes of anger in your eyes or your clenched fists when you wear it. They see a woman, not a warrior, and that gives me the advantage.”
― Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.”
― Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”
― Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

“The friendships of women are strange and wonderful. Fraught and irreplaceable.”
― Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

“The landscapes of our youths create us, and we carry them within us, storied by all they gave and stole, in who we become.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a private poem.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“We are one and all alike if for no other reason than the excruciating and beautiful way we grow piece by unpredictable piece, falling, pushing from the debris, rising again, and hoping for the best.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“But I’ve come to understand how the exceptional lurks beneath the ordinary, like the deep and mysterious world beneath the surface of the sea.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I’ll go as a river,” said Wil. “My grandfather always told me that it’s the only way.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I would leave my past behind and try to build my life again, hoping not for miracles but simply for strength in new soil.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“I had lived my life willing to face what came to me, and that I’d always tried to do the next right thing.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“But carrying your sorrows all alone isn't strength. It's punishment, plain and simple.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“But I came to understand that she, like I, like women throughout the ages, knew the value of employing silence as a guard dog to her truth.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve.”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. ∼Annie Dillard”
― Shelley Read, Go as a River

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Tess, Tess, Tessa.

Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like a bell. Strange to imagine that, isn’t it – a heart ringing – but when you touch me that is what it is like: as if my heart is ringing in my chest and the sound shivers down my veins and splinters my bones with joy.

Why have I written these words in this book? Because of you. You taught me to love this book where I had scorned it. When I read it for the second time, with an open mind and heart, I felt the most complete despair and envy of Sydney Carton. Yes, Sydney, for even if he had no hope that the woman he loved would love him, at least he could tell her of his love. At least he could do something to prove his passion, even if that thing was to die.

I would have chosen death for a chance to tell you the truth, Tessa, if I could have been assured that death would be my own. And that is why I envied Sydney, for he was free.

And now at last I am free, and I can finally tell you, without fear of danger to you, all that I feel in my heart.

You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.

With hope at least,
Will Herondale”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Hope is a pocket of possibility.
I'm holding it in my hand.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games