Cierra > Cierra's Quotes

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“It’s like, take my body, fine, I wasn’t really using it anyway. I’ve got this enormous butt on ostrich legs, the hair of a “before” picture, and weird milky brown eyes like a Frappuccino. But not my brain. My true connection to the world.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“Part of being alive is having life change us. The people around us, the events we live through, all of them shape us. And that's what I think you're afraid of. Maybe not of dying. But of this you, the you you've become, ceasing to exist.”
― 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.
You deserve more than I could ever give you, Kady.
But I'll give you everything I can if you still want me to.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“It’s not the bullets that kill you. It’s moments like these. One piece at a time.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“I don't know my limit, but I'm scared to reach it. I don't know what will happen if I do. And I still can't sleep.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“We're told that the most powerful words in the world are 'I love you.' And while I think those are powerful, I think equally powerful is this phrase: I have started to know you, and I want to know more.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“I push her hair over her ear. Look her in the eye. Feel so much love for her then that it feels like the love I have for life itself.”
― David Levithan, Someday

“It may comfort you to know that your death, while astonishingly violent, will likely be mercifully swift.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“Now, children, watch closely. Hold your breath. Listen. And I will show you the components of calamity.”
― Jay Kristoff, Gemina

“And now, born from the ashes, she’s a warrior in bloodied black.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“You believe there is always an alternative. Always a chance for a miracle. But I told you once before that miracles are statistical improbabilities. There is no such thing in real life.”
― Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff, Obsidio

“AIDAN: I HAVE NEWS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED
DISTRESSING.
Grant, Kady: ok
Grant, Kady: keeping in mind that i am also currently running at 9% capacity, due
to lack of sleep, fear of impending death and having to deal with the boneheads here
on the bridge, please be gentle with me as you break this news
AIDAN: YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

“You think this isn’t a battle? This is a **** ing war.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

“Burn bright, my brave daughter.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“There is nothing stronger than people who endure the worst hardships in the world and still raise their fists at the start of a new day to fight all over again.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“Hold on to that as tightly as you can, Lei. Because war will do everything it can to take goodness from you. I think sometimes people forget there will be time after all of this-for the lucky ones, at least. And when that time comes, we'll all have to live with what we have done.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow

“« I am sorry we never made it home »”
― Elizabeth Lim, Unravel the Dusk

“The things we do to girls. Whether we put them on pedestals only to tear them down, or use them for parts and holes, we're all complicit in this. But everything touches everything else, and I have to believe that some good will come out of all this destruction.”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year

“I ask you: Who is more triumphant than black people? Who walking the earth has been more triumphant than the children of the sun?”
― Echo Brown, Black Girl Unlimited

“Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later.”
― Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones

“like all the rest, giving us impossibilities and calling them choices.”
― Namina Forna, The Gilded Ones

“You and I are warriors, Reed. We were made for bloodshed. Made to charge at the sword and see if we can spin away in time.”
― Kendare Blake, Champion of Fate

“My name is John, and when it comes to playing video games, I have no idea what I’m doing.”
― Brittney Morris, SLAY

“I want to live," I said, replacing Ye Eun's lily behind my ear, "because life is . . . life is worth it. Because as long as we can imagine a better world, we should stick around to see it. Even if it doesn't exist yet. Even if we have to build it from scratch, brick by muddy brick.”
― Jordan Ifueko, Redemptor

“The only thing more powerful than a wish is a purpose.”
― Jordan Ifueko, Redemptor

“I believe one day you will understand that I was forced to make an impossible choice. A life in this death camp is no life at all. I chose to fight back, to find freedom in my resistance, to find liberation in the emancipation of others.”
― Paola Mendoza, Solis