Emma Buckett > Emma's Quotes

“Scars heal,” Sylvie said. “Even the worst ones.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“You’re past is stone, but your future clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Courage is the root of change—and change is what we’re chemically designed to do.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“It’s a strange truth, but some folk enjoy the notion of owning books more than reading them,”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“We carry the greatest burdens not on our shoulders, but in our hearts. But those taken from us never truly die.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Hearts only bruise. They never break.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“we were alive and we were breathing, and even in darkest nights, that can be cause enough for triumph.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“has it somehow been conveyed to you that it makes any difference at all how you feel?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“I’ve got me,” she said.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“One day as a lion is worth ten thousand as a lamb.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“To speak it would make it real. To speak it would be to live it again.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Ariel might have given up her voice for a dude, but Aurora barely uses hers:”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“It’s a lie but I let it stand because she did the same for me, and sometimes lies are lifeboats.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Strangers tend to imagine that sick people are looking for ways to die with dignity, but mostly we’re looking for ways to live.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“suddenly I saw her as my mere reflection: a girl with a shitty story. A girl whose choices were stolen from her.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“it seems that some dying girls follow different rules and dedicate themselves to saving others, rather than themselves.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight in the real world, but we’re not in the real world, are we?”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Bruises fade, after all.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I’ve always resented people for trying to save me, but maybe this is how it works, maybe we save one another.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“This is a stone-cold lie, but I don’t call her on it. Some lies are important.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I’ve never thought about the future. I never had one.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Just when you think you’re getting extra rest, someone breathes fire.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“This must be what it feels like to be God. Fun fact! Some people go to church and ritually eat Jesus and drink his blood. Isn’t that interesting?”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“My life changed irreversibly on the day I met Dr Tuppy Owens.”
― Tuppy Owens, The Sex Lady on the Hill: The Extraordinary Legacy of Dr Tuppy Owens

“It is not acceptable in any circumstance to be afraid to express yourself.”
― Tuppy Owens, The Sex Lady on the Hill: The Extraordinary Legacy of Dr Tuppy Owens

“You may find others become judgemental if they see you with a disabled person. Fuck ‘em.”
― Tuppy Owens, The Sex Lady on the Hill: The Extraordinary Legacy of Dr Tuppy Owens

“Throughout my life some emotions and reactions are difficult for me to interpret or show but love has been an emotion that has always come easily to me,”
― Tuppy Owens, The Sex Lady on the Hill: The Extraordinary Legacy of Dr Tuppy Owens

“narcissism; named after the Greek myth of Narcissus, this is the idea of someone being so preoccupied with fulfilling their own needs that their actions are at the expense of others.”
― Tuppy Owens, The Sex Lady on the Hill: The Extraordinary Legacy of Dr Tuppy Owens

“You are more than the sum of your parts, but your past is still that: yours.”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea