Sophie > Sophie's Quotes

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“My dad always said we're at the mercy of something greater than ourselves and whatever humanity we don't show to others, we pay for. We're paying for.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“She was supposed to be the strong one,” she says.
“Sloane.”
“But I’ve gotten so much farther than her.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I'm here because they're not, so I have to make it mean something. I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I wonder if all hearts are made with the same pockets for fear and pain and sadness. They must not be, or if they are, maybe we all don’t know how to use them. Because otherwise so many of our stories would have ended differently.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“A successful piss on the side of the road and we didn’t die. What a great time that was.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“Now is not about gathering courage, it's about staying one step ahead of my fear.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I've fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That's it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.”
― Courtney Summers, Please Remain Calm

“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan

“Burn them all, little dragon.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“Magic. For the first time, she heard the word and felt a twist in her stomach, a little thrill. Having that kind of power, that kind of influence... it was a wicked thing.”
― Rhiannon Thomas, A Wicked Thing

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“You're nobody's rainbow.
You're nobody's princess.
You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
― Seanan mcguire , Every Heart a Doorway

“This duck tells me nothing!”
― Daniel O'Malley, The Rook

“Tutti di solito sono convinti che le persone si separano perché una si è stancata dell'altra, per propria volontà o per volontà dell'altra persona. Ma non è così. I periodi finiscono, come cambiano le stagioni”
― Banana Yoshimoto, H/H

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Her smiles were shorter. Her laugh was louder. She became distracted at times, and would stare at nothing with a look of shattered sorrow that passed like a cloud the moment someone spoke her name. She loved less quickly, but more fiercely, and made certain that those she cared for knew it well. Sometimes she wept when it snowed.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.”
― Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“It occurs to me that I’ve been mourning two people all these years—the mother I had, and the mother I wish I had—and that neither of them was the one who kept a roof over my head.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House