Shahenda Khaled > Shahenda's Quotes

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”
― Edward Gorey

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Thirty years of overlapping graffiti covered the walls. The individual messages were mostly incoherent, but then perhaps the individual messages were of no importance. It seemed to Ig that all such messages were the same at heart: I Am; I Was; I Want to Be.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“I think you must make a few [mistakes]. Of you don't, you're probably thinking too much. That's the worst mistake you can make.”
― Joe Hill

“Hey, heart. Are you listening? You and I are officially at war.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn’t finished eating.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I turn and look at them, at both halves of my heart, cuddled tightly together in a bed of irony.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“His memory is the last place I want to be.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Lines are drawn, but then they fade. For her I bend, for you I break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It’s not so easy when you’re trying to win a war against the heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“What the hell was I thinking? that wasn't funny. It was supposed to be funny, but it's after midnight, and I'm never funny after midnight”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I don't even know who I'm mad at. Love, maybe? I think I'm mad at love.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There's never been a moment when I didn't recognize you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“He looked at me, straight into me, and I felt like I was in love with the sun.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Clark Kent doesn’t want to be famous. He doesn’t want people to look at him. If they really look at him, they’d see that he’s just Superman with glasses.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“High school guys only appear hot to high school girls. It’s something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, I think.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“He put on a short-sleeved white T-shirt and tried not to flex when he checked his reflection in the mirror. Is this what women felt like when they put on miniskirts?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I'm feeling stupid. I'm feeling brave because I'm feeling stupid.”
― Tahereh Mafi

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“The summer in you
calms the winter in me.”
― Saiber, The Summer in You