Asis > Asis's Quotes

“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

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

“You will be loved. You will be hated. You will be brilliant. Within two years, you will be dead.”
― Kieron Gillen, The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act

“It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath

“Doors are for people with no imagination.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

“We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant”
― Derek Landy, Playing with Fire

“I'm placing you under arrest for murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?'
'You can call me whatever you like.'
Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”
― Garth Nix, Clariel

“The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.”
― Garth Nix, Clariel

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad?”
― Kieron Gillen, The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 5: Imperial Phase, Part 1

“I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”
― Garth Nix, Abhorsen

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them twice. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”
― Derek Landy, Last Stand of Dead Men

“Be assured that any hurt to your spirit will pass in time. It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“Oh, Dog!" Lirael said plaintively, giving the hound a hug. "Why is everything so difficult?"
"It just is," said the Dog, woofling gently in her ear. "But sleep will make it seem easier. A new day will bring new sights and smells.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“I’ll admit that I was staring. Suddenly my whole perspective had flipped inside out, like when you look at an inkblot picture and see just the black part. Then your brain inverts the image and you realize the white part makes an entirely different picture, even though nothing has changed. That was Alex Fierro, except in pink and green. A second ago, he had been very obviously a boy to me. Now she was very obviously a girl.”
― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“I wonder if maybe I just can't cry anymore, if maybe growing up means testosterone is running through my body like an invading army, butchering and bunting everything tender.”
― Meredith Russo, Birthday