Ali > Ali's Quotes

“So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.”
― John Marsden, The Night Is for Hunting

“I live in the light,
But carry my dark with me.”
― John Marsden, The Dead of Night

“... if you have blank spots instead of stories for part of your life, then that would be a pretty serious thing I think.”
― John Marsden

“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”
― Veronica Roth , Divergent

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

“But becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that’s the point.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Collection

“That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“These days it’s easier for me to fall asleep when there is noise around me. I can focus on the sound instead of whatever thoughts would crawl into my head in silence. Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’ ”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Chaos

“I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”
― Kami Garcia

“Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Redemption

“It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green."
"If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now...”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes