OutsideOfTheTrack > OutsideOfTheTrack's Quotes

“Failure lived inside me like an organ. I could feel it pumping alongside my heart. Keeping me alive, even when I didn’t want it to.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“We're here to make magic with words”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Inaction is a powerful choice”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Stories change depending on who's telling them.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Coming out isn’t a one time thing. It’s every person for the rest of your life. It’s thinking twice about who you should let close and who you shouldn’t.”
― Tal Bauer, You & Me

“Nobody actually helped each other. That's why people had religions, hoping gods would provide help where people refused.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“I could fall in love with you, if I let myself. It was Paris, and it was summertime, and it was the wrong place and the wrong time. He wasn’t ready for this yet, wasn’t ready for his heart to catapult out of his chest and chase this man, crave him. He wasn’t ready to fall in love. But there was this guy named Justin, and it seemed Wes didn’t have a choice in the matter, because he was already on the way.”
― Tal Bauer, The Jock

“...people will never exchange comfort for truth.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“Difficult questions, simple answers. What is a community?

It is the sum total of our choices.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Years ago, I cut out part of my soul. The parts of me that I hated. [...] When I wanted to love you, those parts of me weren't there. I couldn't love you fully, Seryosha. Not without everything I'd thrown away.”
― Tal Bauer, Ascendent

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Mors irrumat omnia. Death fucks us all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“The moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed. O, fathers of my bloodline! O, ye kings of olde! Take this crown from me, bury me in my ancestral soil. If only you had known the mighty work of thine loins would be undone by a gay heir who likes it when American boys with chin dimples are mean to him.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Sometimes we don’t really know we’ve won until we see the reflection of that win in the loser’s eyes.”
― Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“This sport demands only one thing from you. Your all.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hurts too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“How lonely it can feel inside a head with ideas you can’t figure out how to spit out.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“The first slide says: SEXUAL EXPERIMENTATION WITH FOREIGN MONARCHS: A GRAY AREA. Alex wonders if it’s too late to swan dive off the roof.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”
― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

“Here there be dragons. Except they weren´t dragons, they were men, and men were always far worse than any mythical monster.”
― Tal Bauer, Whisper

“You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“Wisdom is not bestowed. In its raw state, it is the heartbreak of knowing things you wish you didn't.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar