Erin Entrada Kelly > Erin Entrada's Quotes

“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.”
― Rebecca Stead

“...the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.”
― Rod Serling

“No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.”
― They Might Be Giants

“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.”
― Ben H. Winters, Underground Airlines

“Bookbag, Pocketshoe.”
― Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me

“Sometimes life calls on you even when you don't raise your hand.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“My name could lead people into battle.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“The closet is a closet, but it’s also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, The Land of Forgotten Girls

“Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.”
― E.L. Konigsburg

“Hung herself in the closet."
"Hanged," said Nate.
"Don't be one of those people.”
― Peter Clines, 14

“Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid. Not paranoid, exactly, but always alert and aware, like checking out the exits in the movie theatre or the fire escape in a hotel. You came to know, in a way you hadn't as a kid, that the body you inhabited was vulnerable, imperfectly fortified. On TV, in the papers, in books and movies, it isn't ever men being raped or kidnapped or bludgeoned or dismembered or burned with acid. But in stories and crime shows and TV series and movies and in life too, it's going on all the time, all around you. So you learn, in your mind, that your body needs to be protected. It's both precious and totally dispensable, depending on whom you encounter.”
― Claire Messud, The Burning Girl

“If you don't see something beautiful, change your viewpoint.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, You Go First

“Charlotte made a promise to herself then and there: If I ever see someone fall, I'll ask if they're okay. ”
― Erin Entrada Kelly

“Sometimes Charlotte wished she could trade lives with someone else. When she was in the grocery store and saw someone laughing, she imagined walking up to that person and asking if they wanted to trade places. Just for a little while, she would say.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, You Go First

“People don't want to listen to their thoughts, so they fill the world with noise.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“Crying is good for the soul. It means something needs to be released. And if you don't release the something, it just weighs you down until you can hardly move.”
― Erin Entrada Kelly, Hello, Universe

“It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper