Miranda > Miranda's Quotes

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed. He”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“And at the end of the day, you don’t kill someone for opening a car door. If you do, you shouldn’t be a cop.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.”
― Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

“The world won't come to me...so I must go to it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Hobie had an iron constitution. Whenever he came down with something himself, he drank a Fernet-Branca and kept going.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“god should have made girls lethal
when he made monsters of men”
― Elisabeth Hewer

“He took a sip of my father’s weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit’s like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It’s fucking near water.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

“One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Black people are apparently responsible for calming the fears of violent cops in the way women are supposedly responsible for calming the sexual desires of male rapists.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist