Cristy Vizcaino > Cristy's Quotes

“Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“She remembered her first impression of him, tall, roughly handsome, and dangerous, like poison dressed up in an attractive bottle.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“This was why love was so dangerous. Love turn the whole world into a garden, so beguiling it was easy to forget that rose petals were as ephemeral as feelings, eventually they would wilt and die, leaving nothing but the thorns.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.”
― Karin Slaughter

“Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“I’ve always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“You don’t understand how the world works. That there are consequences you can’t predict. That bad choices, bad deeds, can corrupt you.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter

“He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren’t lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Love, like water, always flowed down the path of least resistance.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.”
― Karin Slaughter, Broken

“You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special kind of love to change who you are inside.”
― Karin Slaughter, Broken

“That’s what love is, Sara, when there are so many things about you that you only want one person in the world to know.”
― Karin Slaughter, Broken

“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
― Ray Bradbury

“A good adventure is like a good literature. They both descend to the depths of our souls and they become unforgettable all our lives!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You need a magic in your life to feel alive and adventure is the best magic you need!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Adventures were always best when there was someone to share them with.”
― Chris Colfer

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
― George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt