Cherith > Cherith's Quotes

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“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

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“But we can choose a different world. In fact, we will choose a different world. The world will be different a generation from now. The question is whether we will look back in gratitude at the virtuous cycles or in horror at the vicious ones.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“On my first day of training, she told me, "Death is natural. Children dying is natural. None of us actually wants to live in a natural world." Treating disease, whether through herbs or magic or drugs, is unnatural. No other animals do it, at least not with anything approaching our sophistication. Hospitals are unnatural. As are novels, and saxophones. None of us actually wants to live in a natural world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“In a world myriad as ours, the gaze is a singular act: to look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Decades before I valued myself enough to be careful for myself, I was careful so that my mother would not worry.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“Smart is only a construct of correspondence, between one’s abilities, one’s environment, and one’s moment in history.”
― Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“But what they don’t know is this: As long as you are alive, it is never too late to be found.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“I changed my answer to the question people always ask me. No, I wouldn’t go back to my old life. I would not trade this life for anything. Whatever I have lost or gained, the path that led me here is the one where I belong.”
― Malala Yousafzai, Finding My Way

“But you don't need to get the best grades, or be a perfect person to prove yourself worthy of your rights. They belong to you from the moment you were born.”
― Malala Yousafzai, Finding My Way

“Friendship is the only type of love available to all of us, at any point in our lives; it is common, often overlooked, unmarked by major holidays. To me, friends should be embraced with the same magnitude of wonder and care that we feel for lovers and family members. When I started university, I just wanted to be less lonely. Three years later, I felt like I belonged – not simply included, but loved.”
― Malala Yousafzai, Finding My Way

“Trust the water to hold you, trust yourself to float.”
― Malala Yousafzai, Finding My Way

“You might inherit an identity and feel obligated to carry it, even as it crushes you.”
― Malala Yousafzai, Finding My Way