Khadija ✿ > Khadija ✿'s Quotes

“I hated humans.
They were such a disappointment.
And to think, god switched dinosaurs for man.
He must be raging.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“Boys with pretty eyes and big muscles mess everything up for girls.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I want your trouble, and your complications, and everything else that comes with you.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“But don't forget that you'll always be my 13." She sniffled and wiped my cheek with her fingers. "My binding 13." I choked out a pained laugh, thinking about that stupid bet. "You heard about that?" "Yeah." Half-sobbing/ half-laughing, Shannon smiled and nodded. "I won.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“She was worth it all.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“Now, tell me who made you cry and I'll fix it.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“Humans didn't deserve the love and loyalty dogs gave them.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“I'm all in, Shannon. Scars and all. Fucked up father and all.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“I wasn’t jealous seeing you with him, Bianca.” My guttural and raw voice stills her just as she reaches the hallway. “I was in pain.” I cross the distance and take her hand in mine, slowly turning her around to face me. Tilting her head back, I cup her cheek and let it all out. “Every single smile, every word, every touch that you gave him freely made me see and bleed red. It was a constant battle inside my head to not care, to not stare and not have you all to myself.”
― Simran ., Scandalous Games

“Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
― Taherah Mafi

“I WANT TO BE THE FRIEND YOU FALL HOPELESSLY INLOVE WITH”
― Taherah Mafi

“To the world, she is formidable. To me? She is the world.”
― Taherah Mafi

“I think I might fetch you the moon if only to spare your tears again.”
― Taherah Mafi

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.”
― Taherah Mafi, Shatter Me

“You aren’t just the love of my life. You’re the joy of it.”
― Amelie Rhys, Alive at Night

“To the ones that bloomed when the world expected them to wither”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine

“Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine

“I love you, sunshine. My heart has loved you since the moment it recognized yours, so akin to mine, so beautiful and selfless. I want to cherish it forever, keep it safe between my hands.”
― Lisina Coney, The Brightest Light of Sunshine

“it is not possible to show the reality for people who suffer from delusions”
― Jasper DeWitt, The Patient

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“It's nice to meet you Silence, I'm Azalea.”
― Ashlyn Montgomery, Lilah

“Why cry and possibly make someone around you upset when you can smile and maybe make someone around you happy?”
― Ashlyn Montgomery, Lilah

“I didn't want to die, but now I needed to figure out how to turn my life into one I wanted to live.”
― Madison Beer, The Half of It: A Memoir

“So different types of pain can all exist at once. It’s not a competition of who has it worse. And someone else’s pain doesn’t take away from your own.”
― Madison Beer, The Half of It

“All this to say, there are people out there who will love you for you, and there are people out there who want to.”
― Madison Beer, The Half of It

“I yearn to know the people I love deeply and intimately—without context, without boxes—and I yearn for them to know me that way, too.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can’t look at them any longer.
Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can’t we be honest about them?”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“Being beautiful, was that for men?'
'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“My memory begins with my anger.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“Because I can’t talk? Because I can’t tell you how fucking breathtaking you are every second of every day? Because I can’t breathe without being near you? Someone like me… I’m different—I can’t be normal for you. I can’t defend you without using my fists or my bat, and I can’t touch you at the same time as telling you that you’re everything to me. I can’t whisper sweet nothings into your mouth and I can’t fucking marry you because not only am I your brother, but I’m defective.”
― Leigh Rivers, Little Stranger