ruby > ruby's Quotes

“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin [Paperback] Stowe, Harriet Beecher

“Every muscle in my body turned to fire. My bones felt like they were melting. I wanted to scream, but I didn't have enough strength to open my mouth. I began to sink, lower and lower to the ground, the sky's weight crushing me. 'Fight back' Grover's voice said inside my head, 'Don't give up.' I concentrated on breathing. If I could just keep the sky aloft for a few more seconds. I thought about Bianca, who had given her life so we could get here. If she could do that, I could hold the sky”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse: The Graphic Novel

“the world was collapsing and the only thing that mattered to me was that she was still alive”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“I didn't know what to say to him. I loved Conrad and I probably always would. I would spend my life loving him one way or another. Maybe I would get married, maybe I would have a family, but it wouldn't matter, because a piece of my heart, the piece where summer lived, would always be Conrad's”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“I can't believe he even has to ask. I would go anywhere. 'Yes' I tell him. It feels like nothing else exists outside of this world, this moment. There's just us. Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“Everybody died that wanted to live, and I? I, though I went down to death's door, lived.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

“So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved.”
― Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

“if it takes a million kisses for her not to think about the scars that surround her heart tattoo, then i’ll kiss her there a million and one times”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us