Giuls > Giuls's Quotes

“But these words people threw around - humans, monsters, heroes, villains - to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Words were different when they lived inside of you.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.”
― Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“In realtà temiamo il domani solo perché non sappiamo costruire il presente e quando non sappiamo costruire il presente ci illudiamo che saremo capaci di farlo domani, e rimaniamo fregati perché domani finisce sempre per diventare oggi.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“He could be the monster if it kept others human.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“We are the darkest acts made light.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In with gunfire and out with smoke.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

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

“People are users. It’s a universal truth. Use them, or they’ll use you.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“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.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“I want it too much," Adam said. That sentence, Ronan thought, was enough to undo all bad feeling he might have had meeting Adam's Harvard friends, all bad feeling about looking like a loser, all bad feeling about feeling stuck, all bad feeling, ever. Adam Parrish wanted him, and he wanted Adam Parrish.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In questo mondo non ci sono né felicità ne infelicità, esiste solo il confronto tra una condizione e l'altra, ecco tutto. Solo chi abbia provato l'estremo dolore è in grado di percepire l'estrema felicità.
Bisogna aver voluto morire per sapere quanto è bello vivere.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Il conte di Montecristo - volume 1

“Per tutti i mali ci sono due rimedi, il tempo e il silenzio”
― Dumas, Alexandre

“Nell’intelligenza umana ci sono miniere misteriose che solo l’infelicità è in grado di scavare.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Il conte di Montecristo