Alysa Fenner > Alysa's Quotes

“You can't focus on what's going wrong, There's always a way to turn things around.”
― Joy, Inside Out

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Why do we carry on like everything is normal when it's not?”
― Boxtrolls

“It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.”
― Batman Begins

“When we lock things away, we're really imprisoning ourselves.”
― Capricorn Anderson, Gordon Korman

“If you only do what you can do, you will never be more than you are now.”
― Kung Fu Panda

“Think of your life as a mighty kingdom, the past is your ever-expanding foundation, presently, you’re building layers onto the many towers of your life, and looking to the future… the sky’s the limit.”
― Harrison M.

“Where I was is not where I am, and where I am is not where I’m going.”
― Harrison M.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Desmond Tutu

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
― Disney's Mulan

“If you are neutral in a situation of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Desmond Tutu

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It’s the loneliest people who love books the most.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman is No Man

“Perhaps that was why she had spent her childhood with a book in front of her face, trying to make sense of her life through stories. Books were her only reliable source of comfort, her only hope.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your two lips”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“I was born without a voice, one cold, overcast day in Brooklyn, New York. No one ever spoke of my condition. I did not know I was mute until years later, when I opened my mouth to ask for what I wanted and realized no one could hear me.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“But maybe that’s the way of life, Fareeda thought. To understand things only after they had passed, only once it was too late.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“It took more than one woman to do things differently. It took a world of them.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“Where I come from, voicelessness is the condition of my gender, as normal as the bosoms on a woman’s chest, as necessary as the next generation growing inside her belly.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man

“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go," she says. "He waits for you."

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Men wants us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars