Kerry > Kerry's Quotes

“Only you decide how important you are.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“your genetics load the gun, your personality aims it, and the events in your life pull the trigger.”
― Suruthi Bala, Redhanded: An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick

“You have a face for movies, not photographs,” I say. “Meaning?” “Meaning you’re extremely handsome in real life, when your face is moving how it does, but when one millisecond is captured, yes, sometimes you’re making a weird face.”
― Emily Henry, You and Me on Vacation

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world, they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Do not let what anyone says about you determine how you feel about yourself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“As the great Bart Simpson himself once said, Nobody ever suspects the butterfly.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“He said, ‘There are three ways to make your mark on the world. Do something ordinary, do something extraordinary or kill something extraordinary. You can be an average John, a John Lennon or the man who kills John Lennon.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Do you realise there was a moment when your mum or dad put you down as a child and never picked you up again?”
― C.J. Skuse, The Deviants

“Imagine being a god, she thought, and still needing to tell everyone how impressive you were.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“You can’t prove what you believe,’ she said. ‘You can only believe it.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind

“The first flute therefore sounded exactly like what it was. The desperate cry of a reed that has been severed from its root.”
― Natalie Haynes, Stone Blind: Medusa's Story

“The place makes it news as much as what happened in the place, sonny.”
― Stephen King, It

“Maybe, he thought, there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends – maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they’re always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for, too, if that’s what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“Let her know you’re there. And if you can manage it, bring her a cookie, a book, a movie to watch. Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“What is a game?” Marx said. “It’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It’s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“She had once read in a book about consciousness that over the years, the human brain makes an AI version of your loved ones. The brain collects data, and within your brain, you host a virtual version of that person. Upon the person’s death, your brain still believes the virtual person exists, because, in a sense, the person still does. After a while, though, the memory fades, and each year, you are left with an increasingly diminished version of the AI you had made when the person was alive.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what it already knew.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus

“The plot hadn’t really got going yet—a lot of backstory—but something exciting was going to happen soon. It had to: the title promised it.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“She looked over her shoulder and smiled, and I introduced her to Bruce, our pet fruit fly, to show that it was not only the art-school crowd who knew how to have a good time.”
― David Nicholls, Us

“That wasn’t ‘a little gas,’ George. That wasn’t an oops, I farted fart. That was a protracted, theatrically loud, shotgun, illegal-fireworksfrom-Chinatown kind of fart. It was the kind of fart you do when you’re all alone. To make sure you’re still alive. To reassure yourself that you actually exist.” George was impressed by her riff on the fart.”
― Kate Greathead, The Book of George

“The horse pulling us was a brown Kerry Bog pony with mad hair and huge brown eyes and his name was Ben. Ben talked more than Fintan but using his arse.”
― C.J. Skuse, The Bad Seeds

“I am that woman, but you won’t hear me roar. With any luck, you won’t hear me coming at all.”
― C.J. Skuse, The Bad Seeds

“some people simply choose to march to their own beat, even if they can keep perfect time with the rest of the band.”
― Alafair Burke, The Better Sister: now the #1 Worldwide Amazon Prime TV series

“The 90s were beautiful, though. The freedom. We memorised phone numbers. We memorised directions. No one knew what we looked like. No one knew our reasons. No one could reach us. We were gods – and we didn’t know it.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Slags

“How can anyone be comfortable with another person when their brains are also always working?”
― Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

“Comrade,’ said Snowball, ‘those ribbons that you are so devoted to are the badge of slavery. Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?”
― Aisling Rawle, The Compound