Liz > Liz's Quotes

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump.”

“Fist-bump. It’s just ‘fist-bump.’”

“Understand.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“We’re not being ruled, we’re being misruled. What’s happening to my country is nothing short of robbery. It’s not open trade; it’s financial bleeding, it’s looting, and sacking. We’ve never needed their help, and they’ve only constructed that narrative out of a misplaced sense of superiority.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I had a little pride. If they did not weep, I would not either. I pressed my palms to my eyes until they cleared. I made myself look around.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I'm thinking it would be very easy to love you. And easier to call you my friend.'

He smiled at me- broad and without restraint. 'I would not object to either.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“M-O-O-N that spells Tom Cullen, laws yes.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“a hidden, silent rebellion whose main purpose was to assuage his guilt over the fact that all this gold and glitter had to come at a cost.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I’ve read it before, but as I get older, I find comfort in rereading favorites. It’s like spending time with old friends.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“Life is like a train that just keeps getting faster and faster and the sooner you realize that the better.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“The best place to enjoy a stormy night is in a warm room with a book in your lap,”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“It’s always about the books, isn’t it?”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“He was growing old and growing tired and he didn’t know how much longer he could keep wandering, but he didn’t know how to stop, and he had nowhere to be.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“She loved seeing another, ordinary part of the world going about its business, the sounds, the smells. She realized, as she picked the last crumbs of croissant off her plate, that she loved the stories she was seeing—the many different lives being played out in front of her. Each day, in every place she went, she was bumping up against other lives, a million other people at the center of their own stories, and Cassie loved to touch them all.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“The man smiled at that, and it made his face handsome, as if all of his good looks were tucked away until he was happy.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“My three favorite things in the world: whisky, cakes and pastries, and books.”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“She stood in the court, her head unadorned and her hair wild, like a living curse.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“As if a choice, carefully bred into your nature by grief and training and hardship, was any choice at all.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“But some men dream of times long dead, and times that never existed, and they’re willing to tear the present apart entirely to get them.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“The fear sloshed over me, each wave colder than the last. The still air crawled across my skin and shadows reached out their hands. I stared into the darkness, straining to hear past the beat of my own blood. Each moment felt the length of a night, but at last the sky took on a deepening texture and began to pale at its edge.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I had walked the earth for a hundred generations, yet I was still a child to myself. Rage and grief, thwarted desire, lust, self-pity: these are emotions gods know well. But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe