Cora Tea Party Princess > Cora's Quotes

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Getting over it doesn't mean forgetting it, it just means reducing the pain to a tolerable level, a level that doesn't destroy you. I know that right now the idea of getting over it is unimaginable. It's impossible, inconceivable, unthinkable. You don't want to get over it. Why should you? It's all you've got. You don't want kind words, you don't care what other people think or say, you don't want to know how they felt when they lost someone, They're no you, are there! They can't feel what you feel. The only thing you want is the things you can't have. It's gone. Never coming back. No one know how that feels. No one know what it's like to reach out and touch someone who isn't there and will never be there again. No one knows the unifiable emptiness. No one but you. You and me, love. We don't want anything. We want to die, but life won't let us. We're all it's got.”
― Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.”
― Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ”
― Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm, harvested from my garden and hung in the storeroom to dry. Weed helped me hang these stalks, I think. His hands touched these tender leaves, just as they touch me.”
― Maryrose Wood, The Poison Diaries

“Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English

“Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.”
― Fleur Gaskin, Arabelle's Shadows

“Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets.”
― Lena Goldfinch, The Language of Souls

“She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home.”
― Victoria Connelly, Wish You Were Here

“The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.”
― Bea Davenport, In Too Deep

“Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me.”
― C.J. Archer, The Medium

“I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in a book called Own It - Take Life By The Bollocks. She once said my name so many times I disconnected from it entirely.”
― Claire Garber, Love is a Thief

“I grinned. "I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.”
― David Stuart Davies, A Taste for Blood

“The water is deep and dark. It shines like treacle in the lights from the boat. You'd go down, down, down.”
― Julia Green, This Northern Sky

“There's this rushing sound, like white noise.

The sound of nothing.”
― Julia Green, This Northern Sky

“Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.”
― Anita Valle, Maelyn

“Maelyn smiled. If books could have litters, she'd be just as happy.”
― Anita Valle, Maelyn

“The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was home.”
― Anita Valle, Maelyn

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant

“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light.”
― A.Z. Green, Beasthood