Arfeya Black > Arfeya 's Quotes

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“I guessed we've all built ourselves up through sadness, disappointment, and experience. It just happens at different times and in different ways.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
― Sir Richard Francis Burton

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and his great curse.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale

“We are all what our pasts have made us,” Catarina said. “The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we’ve been.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Herondale

“Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens--for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen”
― Suzanne Selfors, Coffeehouse Angel

“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

“Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.”
― Suzanne Selfors, Coffeehouse Angel

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”
― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

“It's a promise that I don't want to be your favorite mistake. That I want to be your forever mistake, if you'll have me.”
― Lauren Blakely, Caught Up in Us

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, Three Junes

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“Mom always told me there are two kinds of love in this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Looking back, I wonder if mom saw it in my eyes: the storm clouds gathering, the dry crackle of electricity in the air. But it was already too late. No warning sirens were going to save me. I guess you never really know the danger, not until you’re the one left, huddled on the ground, surrounded by the pieces of your broken heart.”
― Melody Grace, Unbroken

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
― Nikolai Gogol

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
― Henry David Thoreau