Janelle > Janelle's Quotes

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“We are the darkest acts made light.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.

- except maybe yourself.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Everyone’s immortal until they’re not.”
― Victoria Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“The funny thing about armor is that it doesn't just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we're trapping ourselves.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Unbound

“He could be the monster if it kept others human.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“I am a horrible hollow kind of tired; all I want is quiet and rest.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived

“I know it hurts," she said. "So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.”
― Albert Einstein

“VICTOR smiled. He was having a fabulous time killing Eli.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“I've squeezed as many bookcases in this tiny space as possible. Being surrounded by books and magazines makes me feel calm. It makes the room seem wrapped in a layer of protection. As if nothing or no one can get to me.”
― Angelo Surmelis, The Dangerous Art of Blending In