Maddie > Maddie's Quotes

“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.”
― Bette Davis

“Humans have precious few instincts, but that's because we don't listen to them. We let logic and knowledge get in the way. My dad always said that when instincts are at war with something society has taught you, listen to your instincts first and ask questions later. ”
― Elizabeth Norris, Unraveling

“Those deep set eyes that look like they could tell stories for days, and that wavy brown hair that feels soft between my fingers. I try to memorize the angles of his jaw and the lines of his lips, because I know.

I know this may be the last time I ever see him.

Breathe fills my lungs, my throat relaxes, and I can't help but smile. Because I can see what he's thinking as clearly as if he'd spoken.

He doesn't want to leave - he doesn't want to go home.

He's going to choose me instead.”
― Elizabeth Norris, Unraveling

“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way”
― Ellen Hopkins, Burned

“He forced his fists to unclench. "Look, lady, we're not going to go all Hunger Games on each other. Isn't going to happen.”
― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

“Sometimes life just hits you, right in the face. And it’s alright. Because I, for one, think it’s kinda cool to have a black eye every now and then. And I think it’s definitely okay to have scars, and it’s definitely okay to hurt, and be in pain and show it. And that’s why we have friends in this life. And it’s why we have music.”
― Hayley Williams

“Eli had as many different smiles as ice cream shops had flavors,”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Be lost. Give up. give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be lost And then you will not care if you are ever found.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vicious

“Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.”
― V.E. Schwab

“I do not understand why the gods have made it so that every woman’s lot in life is to owe her security to a man. Maybe if it were otherwise, we would not put up with them. But is silent obedience our divine role? Or has Tarek undermined the very strength the Sisterhood was built upon? I cannot discern the gods’ will from men’s; the layers of truth are too muddled together.”
― Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen

“Sometimes it takes more strength to step back than forward.”
― Emily R. King, The Hundredth Queen

“You can’t look at someone the way he looked at me—with the entirety of his past—without also imagining the future.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The kiss was full of both desire and respect—two things a lot of men didn’t seem to know could go hand in hand.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“the things lurking around inside the mind can be just as dangerous as tangible threats.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“He sees it all. Hears it all,” another boys adds. Ten points to Slytherin for the creepy answer.”
― Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic

“And now we’re afraid of each other. That’s what the two of us are. Afraid of hoping when all hope’s ever done is break us. Afraid of getting exactly what we want.”
― Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic

“A fairy doesn’t show his wings to his betrothed.” He slides his hand behind my neck, his thumb stroking my skin. “A fairy shows them to his soulmate.”
― Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic

“From flame to ashes, dawn to dusk, for the rest of our lives, be mine always, Desmond Flynn.”
― Laura Thalassa, Rhapsodic

“Hope has a way of growing up around you whether you want it to or not.”
― Molli Moran, As You Breathe Again: A Small Town Friends to Lovers Romance

“A task was only impossible if you’d decided it was.”
― Ella Summers, Vampire's Kiss

“People of light often are arrogant and self-righteous.”
― Ella Summers, Vampire's Kiss

“I don’t like the way you argue.” He arched a single eyebrow at me. “With logic?” “Exactly.”
― Ella Summers, Vampire's Kiss

“there’s more to life than mourning something you couldn’t have fixed, right?”
― Molli Moran, As You Come Undone: A Small Town Romance

“Her ice cream mimicked her heart: melting fast around this man.”
― Molli Moran, As You Come Undone: A Small Town Romance