Shamis > Shamis's Quotes

“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.
“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.” The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest.
“No.” His hands dropped to her waist. “Destroy me.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Some things exist in our lives for but a brief moment. And we must let them go on to light another sky.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“My soul sees its equal in you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.”
― Sasha Alsberg a

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth”
― Jack Kerouac

“You are what you read.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The winner is just the loser who never gave up!”
― Mika., The Small Stock Trader

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.”
― Roald Dahl, The Witches

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.”
― Walt Whitman

“The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”
― Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein