Amanda > Amanda 's Quotes

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.”
― Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

“I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.”
― John Boyne, The Absolutist

“You are not there, Father,” I cried. “I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep there at night. And throughout it all there is but one thought running through my mind.”
“And that is?”
“This house is haunted.”
― John Boyne, This House Is Haunted

“No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?
And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.”
― John Boyne, This House Is Haunted

“There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?
It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.”
― John Boyne, This House Is Haunted

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.”
― Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

“You will be back by then Ellen, wont you? I'm keeping this notebook safe for you because I want to believe you'll read it someday, and you'll know I never stopped hoping you'd come home.”
― Natasha Mac a'Bhaird, Missing Ellen

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Why do you assume I'm human?

I wasn't born; I was created just like this.

First I was an idea.

Then I came into being, charged with a very important task.

I've come to find the monster.”
― Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark

“Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams.....their demons”
― Eliza Granville, Gretel and the Dark

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“This place called heaven, this realm of perfection and life everlasting. When it comes down to it, nobody ever wants to go there. Now isn’t that strange? I’ll tell you what I’ve seen. I’ve seen faith fall apart at the moment of death. I’ve seen people fight it in every way how. I’ve seen the terror in their eyes. The scratching, the squirming. If god is life ever after then why is it nobody ever wants to go to him and meet him?”
― Paul Lynch, Red Sky in Morning

“You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There’s no forsaking kin.”
― Laura McHugh, The Weight of Blood

“There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.”
― Megan Abbott, Dare Me

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I'm sure loving you to death is just an expression, but those people might actually find a way to do it...”
― Lisa Terry, Moment

“The dream girl exits stage left.”
― Lisa Terry, Moment

“Her gaze leaves mine and drops to my mouth. With trembling fingers she touches my lips, and I can’t wait a second longer.
Yes, I can. Don’t be a prat.
The notebook slides from her other hand and she raises up on her tip toes, her lips almost even with mine now.
I’m absolutely drunk as I inhale her warm breath. Yet somehow I still hold back. This has to be all her.
My insides spindle around each other when her lips slant over mine, and she kisses me with incredible sweetness. Keeping a grip on the bottom of Emilie’s t-shirt is the only thing that stops me from pulling her full-on against me. I want to toss her to a bed and chase the sweetness away, but that would be bad.”
― Lisa Terry