Ann > Ann 's Quotes

“Well, I’m going to be a writer. And when I say that’s a mountain, that’s a mountain.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“I don’t mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

“I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“Did she love him as much as she hated him? Did she hate him as much as she loved him?”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“What happened never mattered all that much because he was always about to leave,”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Was she ever grumpy? Did she ever yell? Fall about laughing? Eat too much? Drink too much? Call out for someone to bring her toilet paper? Lose her car keys? Was she ever just a human being?”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Polly had arrived in the world outraged to discover that her sisters had gotten there before her.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“For Pete’s sake, the girl went back to work three months after Jacob was born. It wasn’t like having a baby would be that big an inconvenience for her.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“His neck is thin, and his Adam’s apple prominent, as though he has swallowed a peach pit at some point in his life and it has been lodged there ever since.”
― Lauren Oliver, Rooms

“On the elevator there was a man whose job it is just to work the elevator. He rides in it up and down all day, so the rich people don’t have to tire themselves out, pushing all the buttons. I bet he gets carsick. I looked around, but I didn’t see any throw-up. They probably take the bucket away when no one is looking.”
― Meg Cabot, From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

“Sometimes it makes me sad. Other times I realize there was nothing I could do. There will always be a last summer.”
― Kathryn Williams, The Lost Summer

“That’s when I knew Katie Bell wasn’t just my best camp friend; she was my best friend.”
― Kathryn Williams, The Lost Summer

“That what you’ve always had doesn’t mean that’s what you’ll always get. That what you’ve always wanted isn’t what you’ll always want.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, What I Thought Was True

“And oh my God, who brought that goddamn guitar? I want to kill them. Do you know how you can tell who the douche bag is at the party? It’s the guy who starts playing the acoustic guitar.”
― Robin Benway, Emmy & Oliver

“And my parents don’t want me to tell my grandmother—who, let’s be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise—that”
― Robin Benway, Emmy & Oliver

“It was strange. We were from opposing nations that were at the brink of war. We were days away from dying for that war. And yet I would have done almost anything for Elián.”
― Erin Bow, The Scorpion Rules

“And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“I think it’s outrageously cruel to keep a puzzle that they know is missing a single piece.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“mysterious starlight that guided you this far guide you onward into whatever crazy beauty awaits.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“Be brave enough to break your own heart.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin.”
― Stephanie Perkins, My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“On my floor, there were fifteen first years and ten sophomores. It was quickly discovered that most of the first years on my floor were still involved in high school relationships. It wasn't difficult to figure out who the ten were, as they (okay, by “they” I really mean “we” but I hate to admit to this type of behavior) often began sentences with the phrase, “My boyfriend/girlfriend . . .” As in “My boyfriend loves Coldplay, too!” Or “My boyfriend has a sweater like that, too!” Or “My boyfriend eats and sleeps and excretes waste, too!” Since no upperclassman would ever, ever, ever put a confining label like “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” on the person she/he was hooking up with on a semiregular basis, it was obvious that anyone making such a bold declaration of commitment was referring to a youthful union forged in the halls of her/his former high school. The”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“But democracy is alive and well, as long as there's an open bar.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“In our artificial civilization many young people at twenty-five are still on the threshold of activity. As one looks back then, over eight or nine years, one sees a panorama of seemingly formidable length. So many crises, so many startling surprises, so many vivid joys and harrowing humiliations and disappointments, that one feels startlingly old; one wonders if one will ever feel so old again. —Youth and Life, Randolph S. Bourne (1886–1918) Even now, when I have come”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“But these—they weren’t case updates so much as letters, the kind you wrote to someone you knew so well you could imagine them beside you, even when they were across an ocean, living out another life.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“How did you find truth when everyone was talking about sides?”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Doubt Factory

“But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other's.”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World