Eloise > Eloise's Quotes

“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread on top of it. It was the best time of her life.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“I'm not the messenger at all.
I'm the message. ”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds of people in the world: the sick and the not sick. If you are not sick, shut up and help. Twenty-five years later, I still cannot reject this as an inaccurate worldview.”
― Hope Jahren, Lab Girl

“People may think you're giving up, when in fact you are simply giving in to the reality of your new life”
― Toni Bernhard, How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers

“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS