Ana > Ana's Quotes

“What you create, others can destroy. Create anyway. Because in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and anyone else anyway.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Maybe I am a mystery— a secret— that needs unravelling...”
― Sara Holland, Everless

“Kaz had spent his life in a series of dodges and feints. Why come at a problem straight on when you could find some other way to approach? There was always an angle, and he was an expert at finding it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“In the Barrel, we don’t trade in safety,” Kaz said, the abraded burn of his voice carrying over the crowd. “There’s only strength and weakness. You don’t ask for respect. You earn it.” You don’t ask for forgiveness. You earn it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“This was the kiss he’d been waiting for. It was a gunshot. It was prairie fire. It was the spin of Makker’s Wheel.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Tempest, on the other hand, was like her antihero or foil character. You know the one who made the hero look good?”
― Ines Bautista-Yao, Plain Vanilla

“If you were to give yourself a list of dares, what would you put on your list?”
― Ines Bautista-Yao, Plain Vanilla

“You have to let the energy of life flow through you. Let things happen, let the cards fall where they may. Stop trying to control everything.”
― Ines Bautista-Yao, Plain Vanilla

“innate. Everywhere, you are observed and assessed: walking down the street, riding a bus, driving a car, eating in a café. You must smile, but not too widely. You must be pleasant, but not forward. You must accommodate and ingratiate but never offer too much of yourself, and never for your own pleasure. If you do this, it must be in secret.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“Being a woman is always a performance; only the very old and very young are allowed to bow out of it.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“when you have no power in this world you must create your own, you must adapt to your environment and try to foil the many dangers around you, so a woman’s pleasantness—her smile, her grace, her cheer, her sweetness, her perfumed body, her carefully made-up face—isn’t some silly by-product of fashions or tastes; it is a means of survival. The performance may cripple us, but it keeps us alive.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“It is a language we learn without even realizing it. We hear our first song and decipher its repetitions, its orderliness. The song teaches us what to expect and when to expect it. We learn to associate low notes with sadness”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“Happiness is not an end point. It is not a long-hidden treasure marked with an X on a map. It is not a reward, handed to you after years of diligent service. Happiness is like being in your mother’s womb—warm, safe, buoyant—with no inkling of when it will end and why.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“We think we need words because it is in our nature to define, to decode, to try to understand by piecing things apart and labeling them, like specimens in a museum.”
― Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

“Roses are for love. Not forget-me-not, honeysuckle, silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life’ll give you and that pours out of you when you’re given the best instead.”
― Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter

“Roses are for love. Not silly sweethearts’ love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life’ll give you and that pours out of you when you’re given the best instead.… There aren’t many roses around anymore because they need more love than people have to give ’em, to make ’em flower, and the only thing that’ll stand in for love is magic, though it ain’t as good, and you have to have a lot of magic, like a sorcerer.…”
― Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter

“And yet . . . after all my longing for this life, it felt strangely empty, beautiful but hollow. I did not want to admit that I found it boring, or that I was floundering in its shallows. How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“we despise most those who know us at our worst. It’s true. It’s so true.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat when you’re just going to get hungry? Every flower dies eventually, Sam. But not yet.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark

“Well, you can’t love everything equally,” she said. “You just can’t—and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear, because that’s what love is. Particular. Specific.”
― Veronica Roth, Ark