Allison > Allison's Quotes

“Every shining jewel comes from a crushing it never knew it could survive. There's good waiting for you.”
― Heather Tucker, The Clay Girl

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“The world turned upside down - in a good way - for one black velvet night.”
― Karen Fortunati, The Weight of Zero

“The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“But then the feeling would dissipate, and he would be left alone to scan the arts section of the paper, and read about other people who were doing the kinds of things he didn’t even have the expansiveness, the arrogance of imagination to dream of, and in those hours the world would feel very large, and the lake very empty, and the night very black, and he would wish he were back in Wyoming, waiting at the end of the road for Hemming, where the only path he had to navigate was the one back to his parents’ house, where the porch light washed the night with honey.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
― Rumi

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“A cat peeped in the window. It had one white paw. One night it had decided to dip it into the reflection of the moon in a fountain to see what would happen.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night