Lilli > Lilli's Quotes

“Look, who's the talking bear here?” Quentin snapped. “Is it you? Are you the talking fucking bear? All right. So shut the fuck up.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“There was no trap involved, no trick: he was a wolf in wolf's clothing. And I went right up to his door and asked him his name.”
― Louise Candlish

“Sometimes men want what they don't have because they don't have it. Even if everyone offered to share, they would only want the share that wasn't theirs.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“Fuck off,” I said. Which always means I’ve lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

“lines and angles, flat and bland,
raise these volumes and make them stand.”
― James Moloney, The Book of Lies

“When you're five years old, trust is another name for love.”
― James Moloney, Kill the Possum

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? I've seen things, angel. There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill thier own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don't they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work! And the worst part is, it's almost impossible to retrieve a soul that has been ripped away. Almost." He gave Akiva a keen look."But it can be done, if ever... if ever you decide to go looking for yours.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“She knew of a scribe dressed all in white who penned letters to the dead (and delivered them), and an old storyteller who sold ideas to writers at the price of a year of their lives. Karou had seen tourists laugh as they signed his contract, not believing it for a second, but she believed it. Hadn't she seen stranger things?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“They’d need no reason!” shouted Arbeely. “Why can’t you understand? Men need no reason to cause mischief, only an excuse!”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.”
― Victor LaValle, Big Machine

“I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.”
― Gail Carriger, Changeless

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”
― Angela Davis

“Quentin’s conversations with his parents were so circular and self-defeating, they sounded like experimental theater.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Honk!" he yelled. "Honk honk honk honk honk honk honk!"
His classmates agreed.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“that the reason we know others exist is because when they look at us, we feel looked at. He called the entity that was staring back at us the Other.”
― Adrian Barnes, Nod

“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
”
― Merce Cunningham