Lily > Lily's Quotes

“Usually I'm remarkably good natured. Try me on a day that doesn't end in y.”
― Cassandra Clare

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are.”
― H.N. Turteltaub, The Sacred Land

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Being classy is my teenage rebellion.”
― Rebecca McKinsey

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
― J.M. Coetzee

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“People who have to announce that they are trustworthy deserve to be lied to.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“A roll of the dice will never abolish chance.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey