Soph > Soph's Quotes

“Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered.
'No.'
'How do you know?'
'I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.'
'Serious?'
'Serious. That isn't a line.'
'Kiss me,' she said.
He did. Everywhere.”
― Jenny Downham, You Against Me

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

“My soul sees its equal in you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.
“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.” The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest.
“No.” His hands dropped to her waist. “Destroy me.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I am enough, and I always will be.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“h e l l  i s  e m p t y a n d  a l l  t h e  d e v i l s  a r e  h e r e”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“White shouldn't be the default any more than straight should be the default. There shouldn't even be a default.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“No life is easy. It's just a different kind of hard.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Shards and Ashes

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had saved.”
― Rebecca Makkai

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse