Belinda Tucker > Belinda's Quotes

“I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like your broken.”
― Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“I have learned, mostly through painful experience, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable. More often than not, it is well meant, the truth, and something I have needed to hear but did not want to. It is an easy thing to be offended. It is difficult to learn something new about ourselves.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“You cannot buy integrity, as the mastons say. No man can hold his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value will ever increase with its cost. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“It is a harsh reality in this world that those in power need no justification and beg no excuses.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Remember—sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Maia, there is healing in weeping. There is balm in tears. An Aldermaston once said: Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Just because they knew it was lost didn’t mean they knew how to let it go.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“But you can't feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“I liked this idea: that peculiarness wasn't a deficiency, but an abundance; that it wasn't we who lacked something normals had, but they who lacked peculiarness. That we were more, not less.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“Stories can sense happiness and snuff it out like a candle.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“I was a creature so small, trapped in some crevice of an indifferent universe.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“She’s like dough, how the give of it beneath kneading hands disguises its sturdiness, its potential.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her family and they had her hauled her off to a sanatorium. I don’t know what deviant pleasure she asked for, though I desperately wish I did. What magical thing could you want so badly they take you away from the known world for wanting it?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“A feeling settles over me—a one-beer-deep feeling, a no-more-skittering-feet-after-the-trap-snaps feeling.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“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.

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”
― J.K Rowling

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son