Chrissie Whitley > Chrissie's Quotes

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes

“I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you’re not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I’ve discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that’s filled with masterpieces I’ve never heard of.”
― Nick Hornby

“Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Weren't you scared?" I ask.
"Yes. But it was a good scared."
"There's a good kind?"
"Oh, yes." Her voice drops so low I have to strain to hear. "Orlin made me scared all the time. Scared I would starve. Scared I would get too cold. Scared he would hurt me again or get so mad he'd throw me to one of the men. That was nasty bad scared." She pauses, scuffing her boots against the floor. "But you never hit me, even though I'm your slave... You always feed me. You call me my true name. Now when I'm scared, it's not because of meanness. And today, I chose my own scared. It's always a good scared, when you get to pick it your own self.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Promise me you'll live," he insists. "Because when this is all over, we must discuss how you sometimes kiss me to shut me up, and how I'll no longer stand for it.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all?”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Belén shrugs. "It's a perfect plan."
"As easy as falling in love," Mara adds.
"Foolproof," Hector agrees.
I don't deserve such friends. I blink against the sting of threatening tears and say, "All you Joyans are filthy liars.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Storm explains, "Joyans find Invierno names complicated and incomprehensible."
I glare at him. Storm and I were going to have a conversation about 'complicated and incomprehensible" versus 'over-wrought and inefficient'.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“I saw the way she looked at you. You are life and breath for her."
He's wrong about that. Elisa loves fiercely, it's true. But she loves with her heart and mind. If she comes for me, it will be part of a larger plan to rescue all of Joya.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.”
― Rae Carson, The Bitter Kingdom

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music

“Looking into Napoleon’s eyes Prince Andrei thought of the insignificance of greatness, the unimportance of life which no one could understand, and the still greater unimportance of death, the meaning of which no one alive could understand or explain.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men’s minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself identically to two persons. Even”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“There is, and can be, no cause of a historical event except the one cause of all causes. But”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“No, bwother, I have gwown moustaches myself,”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“And the same mischievous smile lingered for a long time on her face as if it had been forgotten there.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Beautiful hours move so quickly.”
― Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly

“There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I’d been struck by lightning for lying.”
― Connie Willis, To Say Nothing of the Dog