Sam > Sam's Quotes

“I'm bisexual. Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Of course he wasn't dead. He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking. The kiss of his memory made pictures of love and light against the wall. Here was peace.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“He drifted off into sleep and Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“No expensive veils and robes for Janie this time. She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah’m lyin’. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Where was I supposed to hold all this so-called love? [...] How was I to receive it when my hands were already occupied with carrying so much shame?”
― Madeleine Roux, What If... Loki Was Worthy?

“They had never defined what their "thing" was, exactly. Tony did whatever he wanted, and Pepper did the same, and all the while an unspoken decision to wait for each other lingered between them. Star-crossed but terminally overbooked, the threat of monogamy but not the call to it. Not yet.”
― Madeleine Roux, What If... Loki Was Worthy?

“It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.”
― Bram Stoker

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“She didn't find him unpleasant, but her heart was like ashes from which the flame of love could no longer be lit.”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

“The Trisolarans who deemed the humans bugs seemed to have forgotten one fact: The bugs have never been truly defeated.”
― Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem

“Of course she's not afraid. She knows that the sun will rise again tomorrow.”
― Cixin Liu, The Dark Forest

“I don't know if Native Son is a good book or a bad book. And I don't know if the book I'm working on now will be a good book or a bad book. And I really don't care. The mere writing of it will be more fun and a deeper satisfaction than any praise or blame from anybody.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

“Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now, because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they could go together, in heaven and in hell.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt