Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“I’m sure your parents wouldn’t mind if you became someone you liked instead of the person you are. It’s better to be happy a little bit than to not be happy at all.”
― T.J. Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin

“I can like dolls and study UFOs at the same time. Just because I’m a girl doesn’t mean I’m not capable of deciding what my interests should be.”
― T.J. Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin

“We’re not alike. Not really. We’re separated by time and space. And yet, somehow, we’re all made of dust and stars. I think we’d forgotten that. And I don’t know if you ever knew that to begin with. How can you be alone when we’re all the same?”
― T.J. Klune, The Bones Beneath My Skin

“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“And so, in the absence of any abiding religious convictions, this was the one blind faith I had: that love was a physical force, and it was never wasted. Once it was called out into the universe, it would echo back to us forever.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Believe in yourself, brave girl. Do not let them steal that from you.”
― A.L. Jackson, Visions of Darkness

“But history, alas, is not merely a record of what we do, but also a record of what is done to us.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Framing illness as even involving morality seems to me a mistake, because of course cancer does not give a shit whether you are a good person. Biology has no moral compass. It does not punish the evil and reward the good. It doesn’t even know about evil and good.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“They want us to feel small, Eleanor. They want us to be quiet, be predictable, be unimportant, behave. Then they make us think we deserve it. But I think they’re just terrified we’ll stop listening to them and start listening to each other. And do you know why they’re so scared of women like us?” Our gazes met, two sets of glittering eyes shining in shared determination. “Why?” she asked. My answering grin was positively wicked. “Because they damn well should be.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“The darkness is closing in,” I whispered, “and I don’t have the strength to find the light.” “Then make your own.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“Because in this world of injustice and cruelty, where innocents died every day while people in power turned a blind eye and hid in the comfort of their privilege, doing something and failing was better than doing nothing at all.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame

“When things are dark and you can’t find the light, just keep fighting, little flame. The world needs your glow.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame