Becca & The Books > Becca's Quotes

“In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that.

The gods rule us still, they have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“As much as I want to pull away, I just can't do it. Cal is a cliff, and I throw myself over the edge, not bothering to think of what it could do to us both. One day he'll realise that I am his enemy, and all this will be a far-gone memory. But not yet.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I am here but I am not yours.”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“<...> maybe the need to be remembered is stronger than the need to remember.”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“Just so you know, you can call me anything you want—just as long as you always call me.”
― Gena Showalter, Through the Zombie Glass

“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“To the stars who listen—and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights