Vanessa Vazquez > Vanessa's Quotes

“That dress you're wearing..." Kraven says to Annabelle. Her eyes rise, meeting his stare. "It's quite expensive."

Annabelle makes a face. "Don't worry, I'll give it back. You're the one who wanted to have this ridiculous dinner.”
― Victoria Scott, The Liberator

“Annabelle smiles with one side of her mouth. "I don't look like a tomato?"

"You look like a beauty." I take her arm and guide her toward the lounge area. "Now rock that shit.”
― Victoria Scott, The Liberator

“Can you take me back into town?" I say. "I can't get my voicemails."

"Why don't you calm down, D-Dub. I know you're menstruating, but everything's going to be fine. Once we get inside, I'll explain all about maxi pads, personal hygiene and the feel of a man's penis.”
― Victoria Scott, The Liberator

“What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"

"Medium."

"Excuse me?"

"How am I supposed to answer that question?”
― Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner, These Broken Stars

“I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”
― Giacomo Puccini

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Chaol kept his sword drawn. “I will not go to Anielle,” he growled. “And I will not serve you a moment longer. There is one true king in this room—­there always has been. And he is not sitting on that throne.”
Dorian stiffened.
But Chaol went on. “There is a queen in the north, and she has already beaten you once. She will beat you again. And again. Because what she represents, and what your son represents, is what you fear most: hope. You cannot steal it, no matter how many you rip from their homes and enslave. And you cannot break it, no matter how many you murder.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Their hands clasped between them, he whispered into her ear, "I claim you, too, Aelin Galathynius.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston