Kerryn (RatherBeReading) > Kerryn's Quotes

“I'm floating up
flying high
swirling around
soaring
out of my mind
with glee.
Until it hits me,
midair,
that the person
I most want to tell
has flown away.”
― Kimberly Marcus, Exposed

“I still believe that one of the greatest advantages of college is that I'm officially allowed not to care about high school anymore”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“You can't hide from certain death, so you shouldn't hide from uncertain life.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“But... but.. you're a postman."

He held her gaze and suddenly she couldn't breathe. "I am a solider now, it seems.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“You get more results with honey than with... being an arsehole.”
― Emma Kavanagh

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in your masculinity isn't the same as being straight.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“There is always more to see and feel”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“The world is going to keep right on being beautiful and terrible all at once”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“The more words you know the better chance you have of saying exactly what you mean”
― Al Brookes, The Gift of Looking Closely

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Hope can make people do terrible things.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“Hope was a dangerous, disquieting thing, but he thought perhaps he liked it.”
― Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court

“I believed that you could love someone so much, and still, you could hurt them. I believed that a heart could pound with pain and love at exactly the same time.”
― Megan Collins

“Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit, so when they broke its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“To criminologists these are statistics, to us they are mothers, fathers, uncles, aunties, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. These numbers have names and faces.”
― Stan Grant, Talking to My Country

“Racism isn't killing the Australian dream. The Australian dream was founded on racism.”
― Stan Grant, Talking to My Country

“As a nation we must ask hard questions of ourselves and there is something that gnaws at me. Yes, it is important to remember, but do we also have to let go? Is forgetting the price we must pay for peace?”
― Stan Grant, Australia Day