Dawn > Dawn's Quotes

“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

“His mama beat him with an ugly stick so hard, it gone straight on till his soul.”
― Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze

“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“Life, I now realize, is just one big trek across a minefield and you never know which step is going to blow you up.”
― Holly Goldberg Sloan

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening - big or small - can affect an entire string of people. Occurrences can join us all together. You see, we're all made up of the same stuff. When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected to a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we are all on the same line.”
― Cecelia Ahern

“Everybody oughta have a dog," he said thoughtfully, his hand still scratching Beau. "Dogs teach you love and kindness. They remind you what's important." He nodded and took a sip of his coffee. "A life ain't much of a life without a dog in it, s'what I always said.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Honest Truth

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
― Langston Hughes

“Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

“If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

“There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.”
― Angus Buchan, Faith Like Potatoes: The Story of a Farmer Who Risked Everything for God

“Don't let the fear of what might be rob you of the promise of what can.”
― Charles Martin, Long Way Gone

“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Trying to destroy hope is like trying to clean sand out of your beach bag," she said. "There's always going to be a grain or two left.”
― Ali Standish, The Ethan I Was Before

“Stories let us see and hear and feel what someone else does,” she explained. “They build bridges to the other islands. That’s why stories are so important. They create true empathy.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Afterlife of Holly Chase

“Without stories, we’re all just lonely islands.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Afterlife of Holly Chase

“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“When you're living in a pond of algae, you turn green. It doesn't matter how many times someone tells you to stop.”
― Ann Braden, The Benefits of Being an Octopus

“Sometimes trusting someone is about the scariest thing you can do. But you know what? It’s a lot less scary than being all alone.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“And you cannot leave a library. Without a book.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, Scar Island

“Losing something can sure make you realize how much you loved it, even if you knew you loved it all along”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“Maybe we're all a little broken. Maybe we're all a little fragile. Maybe that's why we need each other so much.”
― Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places