Sam > Sam's Quotes

“Perhaps experience without transformation isn’t experience at all. It’s just killing time.”
― Zak Salih, Let's Get Back to the Party

“It was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“He couldn’t stand to look at the truth, even now. All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

“Everybody grieved and nobody cared.”
― Gregory Macguire

“I wish I understood you," he said. "Sometimes you speak, and I feel like a sailor navigating my foreign stars."
"I am nothing like the stars."
"You are, he replied. "You are as lovely, and almost as distant.”
― Natasha Siegel, Solomon's Crown

“Love is like that sometimes. We call it a burning, liken it to embers and flames, but often it is something less consuming. Like moon phases, waxing and waning, even disappearing entirely. But when that moon is full—oh, when it is full. It shines, and it shines, and it shines.”
― Natasha Siegel, The Phoenix Bride

“I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose.
I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“There was before you and there was during you. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so fucking cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“It's tricky being a man, isn't it? Liking things is always a confession.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“The vision was romantic. The way that Bella in Twilight spent the entirety of the second book trying to throw herself off cliffs for the merest glimpse of Edward. It was possible that I had no idea what love was.”
― Tasha Coryell, Love Letters to a Serial Killer

“I give him one last searching look, wondering how this man has so little anger when I have so much of it, then leave the way I came.”
― Ashley Winstead