Karissa > Karissa's Quotes

“Come on, give me a shimmy!" Ruby screeched from the couch as she ground out one cigarette and then lit another. "You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!”
― Laurie Notaro, There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

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

“Unfortunately, I am only myself. I am scared and alone and unsure, but I am practicing. I am scared and alone and unsure, but that doesn't mean I always will be.

Like AJ repeating words, I can repeat being me, until I start to believe it.”
― Lisa Burstein, Pretty Amy

“Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down.”
― R.A. Nelson, Throat

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“The world is dark, and light is precious.
Come closer, dear reader.
You must trust me.
I am telling you a story.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux

“The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight

“Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.”
― Jackson Pearce, Cold Spell

“She knew all about the cops and their trigger fingers and their predilection for dealing with those who would attack their brethren. Her father had drummed such stories into her from a young age; more so into Whiz, who bore the burden of being a black boy about to grow into a black teen. "If the police even look at you funny," Dad had said, "you hit the ground and put your hands over your head. Don't talk back. Don't try to run. Don't try to explain. They're just looking for an excuse to shoot you. Don't give it to them.”
― Barry Lyga, Blood of My Blood

“Your father died the night the town believed he did, and my captor was born from his ashes. Two men, not alike, strangers to each other.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“I want you to remember this, when everything around you appears to be falling to pieces, when it all seems lost: the world belongs to those who stick around and tough it out”
― Anna Jarzab, The Opposite of Hallelujah

“I'm not sure if fate or destiny is real. But I can tell you that sometimes the very thing you've been hoping for will walk through the door, determined to fend you off. And still, somehow, you will find that you are enough.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“She hated that book. El's not the type of person who can read something that's made her cry and think it was good because it touched her. No, books or movies that make Ellen cry infuriate her. Like, it's some kind of betrayal.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“Perfection is nothing more than a phantom shadow we’re all chasing”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“My mind is a maze and I'm chasing a shadow.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won't zip.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“The fat kids, the skinny kids, the tall ones, the short ones, and everybody in between: I am so thankful that not a single one of us is the exact same. What a boring world that would be.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.”
― Kwame Alexander, Booked

“You are my beginning; you will be my end; in the middle lies our future.”
― Sally Gardner, The Silver Blade

“The good guys aren't all good, the bad guys aren't all bad and any character wholly one or the other shouldn't exist at all.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“I can't help thinking that if we live long enough, we'll all eventually forget the lives we've lived. The faces of people closest to us, the memories we swore we'd hold on to for the rest of our lives. First kisses and last kisses and all the passion between the years...Memories aren't currency to spend; they're us.”
― shaun david hutchinson

“I have a tingly feeling that I get when there are books all around me. The library! I know it's geeky, but I love it. Just sitting between the shelves of books, reading - it's the safest feeling.”
― Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies

“Happiness is self-sabotage, a mean trick that your own mind plays on you. It makes you careless, makes you lose your grip and once you lose your grip, you lose everything. You certainly aren't happy anymore.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Once you lose something, it tends to stay gone. This is especially true with chances.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Love was the mystery nobody could solve, the fairy tale everyone loved to listen to and not quite believe in.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“People will come up with a hundred thousand reasons why other people do not count as human, but that does not mean anyone has to listen.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

“Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so.”
― Walter Kirn, Up in the Air