Celeste > Celeste's Quotes

“We do not live on Camazotz, the dark planet in A Wrinkle in Time, where everyone has to conform. We can read what appeals to us and skip what doesn't, and that's as it should be.”
― Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction – A Neuroscience Guide for Parents on Brain Development and Family Bonds

“Your heart and my heart
are very, very old friends.”
― Hafiz

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Grief settles. It's not something you overcome. It's something that you live with. You adapt to it. Nothing about you is who you were. Nothing about how or what I used to think is important. The truth is that I don't remember who I was.”
― Lisa Marie Presley, From Here to the Great Unknown

“I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Listen sharp, think deep, and guard your tongue- Tam al'Thor”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“The evidence shows,' Swift had said, 'that the difference between [children] who get bedtime stories and those who don't, the difference in their life chances, is bigger than the difference between those who get elite private schooling and those who don't.”
― Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction – A Neuroscience Guide for Parents on Brain Development and Family Bonds

“I know what sarcasm is.” Then she smiled deviously. “I know what sarcasm is!” Stormfather, Kaladin thought, looking into those gleeful little eyes. That strikes me as ominous.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Never ask of your men a sacrifice you wouldn’t make yourself. Never make them fight in conditions you would refuse to fight in yourself. Never ask a man to perform an act you wouldn’t soil your own hands doing.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“You can’t put a price on a person’s life,” Kaladin”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Coincidences might be twins but they’re never triplets.”
― Andrew Van Wey, Head Like a Hole