ML Smith > ML's Quotes

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.”
― Lemony Snicket

“They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“I knew how that felt, to love a story so much you didn’t just want to read it, you wanted to feel it.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“I wondered if there was something sacred, something everlasting, about melted ice cream and summer days and good stories.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Ideas, he knew from experience, arrived in their own good time, dressed exactly the way they wanted to be and saying only as much as they felt like.”
― Cynthia Voigt, Mister Max: The Book of Secrets: Mister Max 2

“When reentering society and risking rejection, the library is a good place to start. They have low expectations. I love the library. Also church. Both have to take you in.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Ravens aren’t usually nocturnal, but hunger can be.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon

“Listen, we’re all trapped in our own lives. You, me, everyone we’ve ever met.”
― Gregory Maguire, Egg & Spoon

“And then he winked at me. Not even a real wink, but a Lucille Bluth stage wink.”
― Max Wirestone, The Astonishing Mistakes of Dahlia Moss

“In the end, my sisters went along with what I wanted—mostly because I framed this as one of Mom’s dying wishes. It was my job to give the CD to the funeral director—to Adam. I downloaded the song from the Wizard of Oz soundtrack on iTunes. As the service began, he played it over the speaker system. Unfortunately it wasn’t “Somewhere over the Rainbow.” It was the Munchkins, performing “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“It was around this time that different parts of the project started to individually, in tandem, and at random get on my fucking nerves.”
― Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time