Elliot September > Elliot September's Quotes

“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Do you believe in God?

I do, please stop, there's so much blood”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“We are the same species. We're all human. It's not that people cannot understand me; it's simply that most of them don't want to”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“What's going on in my head? What do I believe? How much of it is me, and how much of it was put there?
I don't know.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I wonder- if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“All I know is that I’m here. And I’m alive. And I’m not alone.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“And it's so clear how far I've fallen. How far I am from where the stars are.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“I don’t understand anything and it’s like my sadness has drained my brain and now I can’t learn.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“I don't know what to say. So I don't say anything, just stare at the text, and this is when I realise I might actually be invisible; maybe I am a ghost and I can't text back because I don't have fingers or a mind that functions and even though I can physically see myself maybe I'm 100 percent a lie.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“And it's like when someone touches an electric current and you're holding their hand, so it passes to you, and suddenly there you are: seizing, pulsing, filled with light, unable to let go.”
― Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

“this life we think we’re living isn’t real. It’s just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“It came to him, with the force of a revelation, that you had to have been imprisoned to fully understand what freedom was.”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“I felt accepted for who I was. I didn't have to sort the words in my head first, making sure they were socially acceptable before I said them. I groped around for a word that fit. Peace. I felt peaceful.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, A Mad, Wicked Folly

“For opportunity is nothing if you don't grab it by both hands.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, A Mad, Wicked Folly

“There has to be more to life than just imagining a future for yourself. I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Are you happy?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I care so much I’m sick.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“How many times can a man go down and still be alive?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451