Reg > Reg's Quotes

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“You know, sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I just ... met you one day. Like normal people do. If I just walked by you on some street one sunny morning and thought you were cute, stopped, shook your hand, and said, "Hi, I'm Daniel.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“It took four years for me to fall in love with him. It only took four pages to stop.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“She “loved me” in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“Without fear there cannot be courage.”
― Christopher Paolini

“People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“If I speak, I am condemned.
If I stay silent, I am damned!”
― victor hugos, Les Misérables

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It was a cruel trick of the universe, thought August, that he felt human only after doing something monstrous.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“there were two kinds of monsters, the kind that hunted the streets and the kind that lived in your head. She could fight the first, but the second was more dangerous. It was always, always, always a step ahead. It didn’t have teeth or claws, didn’t feed on flesh or blood or hearts. It simply reminded you of what happened when you let people in.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Corpse—another simple word that did so little work, failed to describe something that was once a person, and now was simply a shell.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Violence begets violence, and monstrous acts make monsters.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I didn’t want to lie, but sometimes it’s so much easier than the truth.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“It’s freeing, at first, like shedding a heavy coat. And then you get cold, and you realize life’s not a coat at all. It’s skin. It’s something you can’t take off without losing yourself, too.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Some things don’t need to be said to be known.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“There’s one kind of lie even you can tell. Do you know what it is?” She met his gaze in the steel doors. “The kind you tell yourself.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“We do what we have to. We become what we have to.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I know it hurts,” she said. “So make it worth the pain.” “How?” “By not letting go,” she said softly. “By holding on, to anger, or hope, or whatever it is that keeps you fighting.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Do any humans really possess the strength to rise above their mediocrity? To become monstrous? To become more?”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“You make it worth the pain. You don’t let go.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“Wasn’t the point of being alive that you could choose?”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“There’s a beauty in it, don’t you think? A kind of poetry. What happens when the effect kills the cause?”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet