Stella > Stella's Quotes

“To every lost soul:
Every day your presence impacts someone's life.
You may never know the extent, but the universe put you
here for a reason and we need you.”
― Stormy Smith, Who She Was

“Your fear is holding you back from becoming who you're really meant to be.”
― Erica Cope, Unfamiliar

“Maybe some things are fragile, but your heart is not one of them. It is invincible”
― Erica Cope, The Bright Effect

“Poetry and song lyrics might want us to believe that finding love is like uncovering buried treasure, but now I know the truth. There’s no joy or celebration in love. There are no happy endings. There is simply me and her and a crushing pain. What’s left after that? An entire life of mute should-haves and second-bests.”
― Erica Cope, The Bright Effect

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.”
― Abraham Sutzkever

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
― Reinaldo Arenas

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you struggle with Christian methods and Christian weapons. Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“At this point, caffeine wasn't for pleasure, it was sheer survival.”
― Stormy Smith, Who She Was

“In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.”
― Stormy Smith, Who She Was

“People moved past us, faceless humans who trudged through their own tragedies every day. How was mine so different?”
― Stormy Smith, Who She Was

“I didn't intend to give up music. In fact I needed it. I craved it. I longed for it with such ferocity, I dreamed every night of songs I never allowed myself to play.”
― Stormy Smith, Who She Was

“You said earlier you don't even know what kind of ice cream you like and that's basically a mortal sin, so we're here to find out!”
― Stormy Smith, Who She Was

“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
― Dr. Seuss

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic than was in the world.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“He was full of the restless, dissatisfied energy that always seemed to move into his heart after he visited home these days. It had something to do with the knowledge that his parents’ house wasn’t truly home anymore — if it had ever been — and something to do with the realization that they hadn’t changed; he had.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“don't get too close,
i'll turn you
into poetry”
― Orion Carloto

“We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame