Karis Briscoe > Karis's Quotes

“But (Marie-Laure) was angry. At Etienne for doing so little, at Madame Manec for doing so much, at her father for not being here to help her understand his absence. At her eyes for failing her. At everything and everyone. Who knew love could kill you?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“There is almost something perverse about wanting to teach everyone to read but not teach them how to think clearly.”
― Ben Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance

“He who learns must suffer' and that 'against our will comes wisdom through the awful grace' of enduring pain...”
― Aeschylus, The 'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus: A radical interpretation, translation and commentary

“For it is good to be children sometimes and never better than at Christmas when it's mighty founder was a child Himself.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind... the purpose of the storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon."
-Hoid”
― Brandon Sanderson

“A Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another).”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“However tired you are, it takes some nerve to walk up to a giants door.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind... the purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings (1 of 5) [Dramatized Adaptation]

“Peter: I wish you were writing the book of our lives Mother. Then Jim's leg would get better tomorrow and father would be home soon.

Mother: Well, maybe, if we are lucky, we're all in a book God is writing. Then everything will work out for the best.”
― E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

“She had been afraid for so long now that she couldn't catch up with the facts... it really did happen; all those years of worry did not prevent it.”
― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

“She feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.”
― Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt

“...this was not the best method of recommending herself; but angry people are not always wise...

(Miss Bingley) was left to all the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Leeva, remembering that sometimes nothing was exactly what someone likes to hear, said exactly that.”
― Sara Pennypacker, Leeva at Last

“A little success brews eagerness.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“...for the parents who had taught one child to meet death without fear, were trying now to teach another (child) to accept life without despondency or distrust, and to use it's beautiful opportunities with gratitude and power.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“...the warm grasp of the friendly human hand comforted her sore heart, and seemed to lead her nearer to the Divine arm which alone could uphold her in her trouble.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I've got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is!...
Wilbur was merely suffering the doubts and fears that often go with finding a new friend. In good time he was to discover that he was mistaken about Charlotte. Underneath her rather bold and cruel exterior, she had a kind heart, and she was to prove loyal and true to the very end.”
― E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

“But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?” said the King. “That would be nothing, nothing at all. Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

“I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing—that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing—when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Proof of the contradictory human being: so much good. So much evil. Just add water.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief