Betsy > Betsy's Quotes

“Sometimes, Linn thought, bravery was not loud, or grand, or brilliant as the blaze of a thousand fires.
Sometimes it was quite. Unremarkable. Unknown. The resilient wend of water through rocks, year after year after year.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“I know how it feels, to be trapped. But if there is anything I have learned, it is that you can always make a choice.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“We will not find fairness in this world. But it is up to us to take what we are given and to fight like hell to make it better.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“Monsters make the most powerful weapon in the arsenal.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“I am afraid, Ama-ka."
"That, my daughter, is when you can choose [...] to be brave.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“you can achieve everything in this world, but if it’s for someone else, it’s pointless.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Red Tigress

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She has been hanging on to the hope of him for so long that she doesn't realize there isn't anything left to hope for.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I have been to many religious services over the years. Each one I go to only reinforces my general impression that religions have much, much more in common than they like to admit. The beliefs are almost always the same; it's just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believe in a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. They want there to be a force of good on earth, and they want an incentive to be a part of that force. They want to be able to prove their belief and their belonging, through rituals and devotion. They want to touch the enormity.
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. yes, the differences between male and female are biological, but if you look at the biology as a matter of percentage, there aren't a whole lot of things that are different. Race is different purely as a social construction, not as an inherent difference. And religion--whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“But perhaps all monsters were heroes in their own eyes.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“In the face of fear, one could choose to run, or to rise.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Only loss can teach us the true worth of things.” Linn’s clothes rustled as she knelt before Ana and grasped her hands. “There is nothing we can do but go on, one day at a time. We live in their memory, taking the breaths they cannot draw again, catching the warmth of the sunlight that they were meant to feel.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Your heart is your compass,”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“But, in this world life is a masquerade. Everyone wears masks.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Your Affinity does not define you. What defines you is how you choose to wield it.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Blood Heir

“Why wouldn’t I want to come? You’re my wife.” “You hate crowds.” “I’d sit in a crowd of a hundred thousand people if it meant being there to support you.”
― Teagan Hunter, Blind Pass

“When we die," she said, "I don't think the gods will even know what to do with us.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
And then she would remember how it had felt to be loved, when the world held nothing but possibility. No matter what they did to her, they could never take that away.
She would not break.
And someday ... someday, even it took her until her last breath, she'd find out who had done this to her. To Sam.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“Tell me your deepest secret," she said softly...
After a long moment, he spoke. "The only secret I've borne my entire life is that I love you." He gave her a slight smile. "It was the one thing I believed I'd go to the grave without voicing." His eyes were so full of light that their loveliness almost stopped her heart.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“She wouldn't leave him like this, in this cold, dark room.
She yanked out of Arobynn's grasp. Wordlessly, she unfastened her cloak and spread it over Sam, covering the damage that had been so carefully inflicted. She climbed onto the wooden table and lay out beside him, stretching an arm across his middle, holding him close.
The body still smelled faintly like Sam. And like the cheap soap she'd made him use, because she was so selfish that she couldn't let him have her lavender soap.
Celaena buried her face in his cold, stiff shoulder. There was a strange, musky scent all over him--a smell that was so distinctly not Sam that she almost vomited again. It clung to his golden-brown hair, to his torn, bluish lips.
She wouldn't leave him.
Footsteps heading toward the door--then the snick of it closing as Arobynn left.
Celaena closed her eyes. She wouldn't leave him.
She wouldn't leave him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“She had believed she could love Sam and not pay the price. Everything has a price, she'd once been told by a Spidersilk merchant in the Red Desert. How right he was.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“But she squared her shoulders. Straightened her spine.

“My name is Celaena Sardothien,” she whispered, “and I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Empire

“In darkness we gain a deeper understanding of light’s brilliance. And I found the courage to open my eyes, to see that I was never alone in the dark.”
― Erin Phillips, A Crown of Chains