Cameron Truong > Cameron's Quotes

“Men or women who think they can control fortune as if she’s a housewife are the fools. She’ll spin and spin whatever we do.”
― Natasha Solomons, Fair Rosaline

“He loved us all, then let us fall from his fingers, desiccated as the rose petals on the flowers he made.”
― Natasha Solomons, Fair Rosaline

“We're like a circle of mirrors facing inwards; we can't hide from each other or ourselves.”
― Juno Dawson

“I'm not a fool, Jack Currer, no matter what you might think of me.

Oh, I assure you, Miss Sinnett, I've taken you for a lot of things, but a fool was never one of them.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“When Jack looked at Hazel, the flame was alive and licking at the air around it. It was seeing fire in person for the first time.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“Love is nothing but the prolonged agony of waiting for it to end. The fear of losing the ones we love makes us do selfish and foolish and cruel things.
The only freedom is freedom from love, and once your love is gone, it can be perfect, crystallized in your memory forever.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“He touched McVries’s shoulders, setting him straight again. McVries looked up at him sleepily and smiled. “No, Ray. It’s time to sit down.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“But maybe this is how broken people keep living. They find someone as broken, fit them into the empty spaces of their hearts and, together, grow into something different.”
― Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

“He fell in love with her half coated in mud, exhausted and blood splattered. In another universe, they would be able to go hand in hand to a dinner party, with nothing to worry about and no nightmare chasing them.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“I can survive a hanging and a stabbing and shipwreck and starvation. And I still wouldn't dare to do anything as foolish as standing up Hazel Sinnett.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“Your success is their success, and your failure their failure. You are greater than yourself now. It's not fair to be a symbol, Miss Sinnett, when it is so much easier to be a person.”
― Dana Schwartz, Immortality: A Love Story

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“They do not fit together perfectly. He was not made for her the way Luc was-- but this is better, because he is real, and kind, and human, and he remembers.”
― V.E. Schwab

“She is so tired, and he is so warm; she does not want to go, and he does not ask her to.”
― V.E. Schwab

“He is lost and scared and grateful, he is sorry and happy and afraid. But he is not alone.”
― V.E. Schwab

“What's the difference between who you are and what you have?”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Control was change, change was control. And both were a void filled with images that led nowhere.”
― Andrés Barba

“I need something to live for. I need a purpose. I need to accomplish something good before I lose my mind.”
― James Dashner, Crank Palace

“If I'd had two bloody hearts they'd have both been ripped out. So I guess I have three since one's still beating.”
― James Dashner, Crank Palace

“I’m sorry I didn’t try harder to protect you. I’m sorry I never got to tell you. I’m sorry I never kissed you.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“You and me.” Always you and me with them, since before they could walk and talk and think.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“She wasn’t thinking about last words, she as thinking about all the words, all the memories. It was love; thorny and complicated and sad and happy.”
― Holly Jackson, Five Survive

“When man begins to think that he is responsible for writing the script of the world, he forgets the forces that dream up our reality.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“They hoped for him, deep inside. All three of them. Because they didn't dare hope for themselves.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

“Living beings don't care how you treat them. We just don't want to be alone.”
― Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

“What I had not learned yet: unconditional support is not the same as unconditional love, even if it might sound similar.”
― Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

“Suddenly there is a someday, and that one spoken word seems to imply so many other unspoken ones.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.”
― Emma Lord, Tweet Cute

“Mortals may age, but the gods are prisoners of their own infantile whimsies, never capable of change and never knowing what it is to love because they dare not risk the suffering of loss.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne