Melissa > Melissa's Quotes

“I am not ready to become the next version of me that I must.”
― Lori Blevins

“She pretended his eyes weren’t scouring her up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Her”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“And thus they built a stage on which to showcase their conjuring—and also to refine it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“No, thanks. I’m busy being an island of sanity in a sea of utter madness,”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

“I love you,’ he whispered, and kissed my brow. ‘Thorns and all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“You know what Dorothy Parker said, right? You can lead a whore to culture, but you can’t make her think.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Ultramarathons have a way of stripping you bare. All the outside layers are peeled away like an onion and you are left alone with your doubts and fears and a finish line that feels like an eternity away. But step after step, minute after minute, hour after hour that finish line gets closer. And when you find it all the doubts and fears vanish, replaced by triumph.”
― Cory Reese, Nowhere Near First: Ultramarathon Adventures From The Back Of The Pack

“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straight-forward pathway had been lost”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“There are a lot of people who don’t like a lot of people but they don’t go around the place murdering them.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders

“Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it, and said to them, “Behold, the head of Holofernes, the chief captain of the army of Asshur, and behold, the canopy, in which he laid in his drunkenness. The Lord struck him by the hand of a woman.”
― Anonymous, The Complete Apocrypha: 2018 Edition with Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees