Zoe Dickens > Zoe's Quotes

“But paradise is locked and bolted....
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.”
― Heinrich von Kleist, On a Theatre of Marionettes

“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“O beautiful for spacious skies
for amber waves of grain”
― Katharine Lee Bates

“In dreams, and in love, there are no impossibilities.”
― Hilary Duff, Elixir

“He always believed that people live up or down to the amount of trust you put in them.”
― Hilary Duff, Elixir

“In dreams and in love, there are no impossibilities.”
― Hilary Duff, Elixir

“He swung it open and presented me with a single red rose.
"For you," he said.
"Very gallant," I replied. "Of course you do realize I have the same cut flower in my room."
Ben glanced over his shoulder at the now empty bud vase sitting on his table. "Hmm. Didn't really think that out. Still gallant?"
"Very."
"You happen to look ravishing tonight." He said it with a British accent that made me laugh out loud.
"As do you, sir," I responded in kind.
"Excellent. Shall we go, then?" He extended his arm and I linked my own through it, first shifting my camera bag to my other shoulder so it wouldn't bang between us.”
― Hilary Duff, Elixir

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”
― Antonin Artaud

“In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she waltzed alone, lost in her dreams. But he knew her thoughts weren't of him.

She stopped and stared upward. Even from a distance, he could see the blush upon her cheeks. She seemed young—no, new. It made his chest ache.

Still, he watched, watched until she sighed and went inside. She never bothered to look below.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“And sometimes, hope is the only thing that gets us through the day.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
― Guillermo Del Toro

“A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
― Kathleen Winsor

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”
― Tracy Chevalier

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium