Madeline > Madeline's Quotes

“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Are you out of your candy wrapper?”
― Polly Shulman, Enthusiasm

“To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.”
― Stuart Hill, The Cry of the Icemark

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”
― Frank Portman, King Dork

“You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.”
― Sarah Dessen

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before – bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years to do it – but, Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”
― Isobelle Carmody, The Keeping Place

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre