E Harris > E's Quotes

“To survive you need to learn to hold contradictory things in your head at the same time. I am going to die; I am going to live. There is nothing to fear; be wary of everything.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

“People get very angry when police officers are accused of a crime, but that anger is often displaced toward the accuser or the victim. The conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience is well documented.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“Did you know that the single most likely to occur crisis currently facing Americans is a pandemic? With bioterrorism a real threat, and air travel as popular as it is today, deadly diseases such as avian flu and smallpox could erupt in our population at ANY time. Would YOU know what to do in the event of a bioterror attack?”
― Meg Cabot, Princess on the Brink

“What if I am?” She exhaled a plume of vapor from her e-cigarette—which, thank God, she’s switched to, none of us could take the Gitanes anymore.”
― Meg Cabot, Royal Wedding

“Of course, if they make a third movie of my life, it would be lovely if they show Michael taking a bullet for me, just to liven things up a bit.”
― Meg Cabot, Royal Wedding

“even if things after the great influenza of 1918 never did go back to what people back then thought of as “normal,” they didn’t get worse . . . At least until a few years later, when World War II started.”
― Meg Cabot, The Quarantine Princess Diaries

“I remembered things as I’d thought they’d been, and then the truth, That Truth, had ripped the memories in half as easily as if they had been images on printer paper.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“And even once we were together, I felt like I could never really know her. Like she was always just out of reach.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“That’s how you keep yourself safe, you know? You pay attention to how the world works. But there was no secret code for him.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Some things are so horrible that the only sane response is a bit of madness.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“You must be careful with that, Roos. It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a person.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“You must have felt so frustrated, so powerless,” I said. “I did, and never more so than when he smiled at me and said, ‘See, darling? I can have you put away anytime I like.’ I knew he was right. Once people believe you’re mad, anything you do will convince them more.”
― Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

“but life didn’t make him a monster. People like her did.”
― Penelope Douglas, Five Brothers

“Opens up space and quiet for him to feel at last how tired he is, how depressed. Better off perhaps staying at Naomi’s, getting high and playing Call of Duty with her roommates, medicating himself to sleep. This way accepting consolation he must accept also that he needs it.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“than listening to Captain Grady and Lieutenant—shit, I’ve already forgotten his name—”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“no amount of power is worth staying with someone who doesn’t love you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“How about I pump you full of lead, soldier, would that get you motivated? Can’t say, sir! I’d probably still be unable to sleep or eat, just a little bit heavier from the lead.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Because death breaks out connection... death is not a thread. it is the sharp cut that severs us. Death separates us from one another, and yet holds us close. As deeply as we hate it, it love us more.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“What did she do to be erased so completely?”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“My point is that you mock the very values that keep you relevant—and you should hold your tongue in gratitude.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“He couldn't believe it was only Wednesday. And it was made worse when he realized it was actually Tuesday.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Sometimes she did it on purpose. She let go when she was nearly at the top of a problem,”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis