Raz > Raz's Quotes

“You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.”
― Sally Gardner, Maggot Moon

“There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down.”
― Elizabeth Laird, Red Sky in the Morning

“It was time for the mirror pep talk.
“Okay, Maggie,” I said to myself after my shower, wiping the steam off the medicine cabinet.
“You could eat these kids for breakfast. You won’t, though, because that would be cannibalistic and
wrong.”
― Robin Benway, Also Known As

“Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.”
― Katie Dale, Someone Else's Life

“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Life can be hard and beautiful and messy, but hopefully, it will be long. If it is, you will see that it's unpredictable, and that the dark periods comes, but they abate -- sometimes with a lot of support -- and the tunnel widens, allowing the sun back in. If you're in the dark, it might feel like you will always be there. Fumbling. Alone. But you won't -- and you're not.”
― Gayle Forman, I Was Here

“This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.”
― Cat Clarke, Torn

“He spits out an epithet so nasty I think it's only legal in England. And then only when your favourite football club loses.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, Relentless

“Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?"
"Is that including, or not including you?”
― Anthony Horowitz, Eagle Strike

“You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves

“There are so many sad people nowadays that sadness looks normal.”
― Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“. You can’t spend your life being afraid of what other people think”
― Leah Rae Miller, The Summer I Became a Nerd

“According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“It sounds crazy, but I’m not even scared when I decide to go for it. Frankly, it’s the only logical course of action. If you have the chance to uncover a secret and you walk away without looking, there’s something wrong with you.”
― William Sutcliffe, The Wall

“How Not to Break Into Sublevel Two
(A list by Cameron Morgan, with help from Macey McHenry)

....

-Teleportation: Sure, Liz says she has an excellent working theory, but she doesn't have a prototype yet. And without a prototype it's pretty much a moot point.

-That thing Bex's parents did in Dubai with liquid nitrogen, an earthquake simulator, and a ferret: Because we don't have a ferret.”
― Ally Carter, Only the Good Spy Young

“Now I have a choice. I can go back up, collect my football, and head home; or I can go through. I know what I ought to do. I know what every other boy in Amarias would do. But as I see it, those are the two best reasons there could possibly be for doing the opposite.”
― William Sutcliffe, The Wall

“And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died."
"From what?"
"Boredom.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves

“Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose?”
― Danielle Paige, No Place Like Oz

“She pulled up Ash's shirt, revealing a layer of gauze that was just beginning to seep blood onto the mattress. "At least the bandaging was done properly," she mused. "Very nice, clean work. Your handiwork, I presume, Goodfellow?"
"Which one?"
"The bandage, Robin."
"Yeah, that was mine, too.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Daughter

“People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Home isn’t just where you’re born—it’s where you belong.”
― Danielle Paige, No Place Like Oz

“I mean, she was just cool, you know? And she didn't even mean to be. She was just a hundred-watt lightbulb in a world of forty-watt bulbs. She shone.”
― Nick Lake, Whisper to Me

“I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Mysteries are for solving, walls are for climbing, secret hideouts are for exploring. That’s just how things are.”
― William Sutcliffe, The Wall

“Everyone in my family always spares one another's feelings. It leaves little room for honesty.”
― Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine

“Good and evil were always changing places with each other”
― Danielle Paige, Dorothy Must Die