Alyssa Davis > Alyssa's Quotes

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
― Coco Chanel

“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.”
― Robert Cormier, Heroes

“Of course not. No one is chosen. Not ever. Not in the real world. You chose to climb out of your window and ride on a leopard. You chose to get a witch’s Spoon back, and to make friends with a wyvern. You chose to trade your shadow for a child’s life. You chose not to let the Marquess hurt your friend--you chose to smash her cages! You chose to face your own Death, not to balk at a great sea to cross and no ship to cross it in. And twice now you have chosen not to go home when you might have, if only you abandoned your friends. You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you--you chose yourself. You could have had a lovely holiday in Fairyland and never met the Marquess, never worried yourself with local politics, had a romp with a few brownies and gone home with enough memories for a lifetime’s worth of novels. But you didn’t. You chose. You chose it all. Just like you chose your path on the beach: to lose your heart is not a path for the faint and fainting.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.”
― James Rozoff

“If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.”
― Paul Berman

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide