Eve Messenger > Eve's Quotes

“The Con-U storage facility is the most amazing space I have ever seen. Keep in mind that I recently worked at a vertical bookstore and even more recently visited a secret subterranean library. Keep in mind, also, that I saw the Sistine Chapel when I was a kid, and , as part of science camp, I got to visit a particle accelerator. This warehouse has them all beat.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Astrid Dane. . . Her long colorless hair was woven back into a braid, and her porcelain skin bled straight into the edges of her tunic. Her entire outfit was fitted to her like armor; the collar of her shirt was high and rigid, guarding her throat, and the tunic itself ran from chin to wrist to waist, less out of a sense of modesty, Kell was sure, than protection. Below a gleaming silver belt, she wore fitted pants that tapered into tall boots (rumor had it that a man once spat at her for refusing to wear a dress; she’d cut off his lips). The only bits of color were the pale blue of her eyes and the greens and reds of the talismans that hung from her neck and wrists and were threaded through her hair. . .
“I smell something sweet,” she said. She’d been gazing up at the ceiling. Now her eyes wandered
down and landed on Kell. “Hello, flower boy.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.”
― Melissa St. Hilaire

“Everyone at school has their little group. Even the people nobody likes seem to tolerate each together enough to sit together at lunch. But I just sort of wander around by myself most of the time. It'd almost be better if I thought no one liked me, if I had some weird tick or social inadequacy that could easily explain my alienation, but it's not that easy. People talk to me at school and invite me to parties, but something's missing on the smaller scale. I don't belong to anybody. I don't have anyone who is mine.”
― Amy Reed, Crazy

“No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

“We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.”
― John Green

“who are you
really?

you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gender
you are not an age
and you are not where you are from

you are your favorite books
and the songs stuck in your head
you are your thoughts
and what you eat for breakfast
on Saturday mornings

you are a thousand things
but everyone chooses
to see the million things
you are not

you are not
where you are from
you are
where you are going
and i'd like
to go there
too”
― m.k

“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“My color is my joy and not my burden...”
― Bebe Moore Campbell, Brothers and Sisters

“His eyesight wasn’t as keen as it had been, but he knew a changing mind when he saw it.”
― Bebe Moore Campbell, What You Owe Me

“The witching hour, people used to call it, that dark time when restless spirits reached for freedom.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“I apologize for anything I might have done. I was not myself.”
“I apologize for shooting you in the leg.” said Lila. “I was myself entirely.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I felt suddenly shy.     I was not used to shy.     I was used to shame.     Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.     Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.”
― R. J. Palacio, Wonder

“He did a very good impression of a stone column.”
― Shannon Hale, Princess Academy

“And here was Ronan, like a heart attack that never stopped.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“I think for anyone to become good at something, they have to fail a lot too. And they have to be completely unafraid to fail or they'll never make it to the next level.”
― Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I can taste the good-bye on his lips.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Carol was like a secret spreading through her.”
― Highsmith, Patricia

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

“I wonder if there's really a place in heaven for hypocrites who preach love, all the while kicking the downtrodden.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Identical