Shiah > Shiah's Quotes

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?"
Zoe blinked. "Yes. What is funny?"
"Nothing," Grover said, trying to keep a straight face. "I could use some dam french fries."
Even Thalia smiled at that. "And I need to use the dam restroom."
...
I started cracking up, and Thalia and Grover joined in, while Zoe just looked at me. "I do not understand."
"I want to use the dam water fountain," Grover said.
"And..." Thalia tried to catch her breath. "I want to buy a dam t-shirt.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan’s Curse

“He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Rule 1: The Doctor lies.”
― Steven Moffat

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“You make me want things I can't have.”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“You fuck - you ate my cat!”
― Kendare Blake, Anna Dressed in Blood

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“What I am
is tired of jam.”
― Russell Hoban

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
― Chris Rock

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford, The Amber Gods and Other Stories

“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
― O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov