Angela > Angela's Quotes

“When you think all is lost, the things you need most return unexpectedly.”
― Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Curse this world for what it does to the mothers, for what it does to the daughters. Curse it for making us strong through loss and pain, our hearts torn from our chests again and again. Curse it for forcing us to endure.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“Charles says that he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am his Jane; Sadar says he does not care what sort of Jane I am so long as I am my own Jane; Sahjara says that she does not care what sort of Jane I am as long as she is my Sahjara.”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele

“Because if it did- if it disappeared, if the voices vanished and you were no longer overtaken by the taunts of your own potential, no longer blinded by a perfect vision of your purpose, no longer engorged with passion- what would happen?”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”
― M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“The ocean waves thunder on, and it is man who must swim amongst them. The wind blows, cold and brittle, and it is man who must protect against it. The earth shakes and cracks, swallows and destroys, but it is man who must walk upon it. So it is with death. I cannot surrender.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I had to imagine love and so the absence of it was just something I guessed at. But now, I knew what it felt like to miss someone. To have someone fit into your life and take parts of you for themselves, only to abandon you and those pieces without care.”
― T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere

“Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don’t have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Belief like that, that hasn't tasted any real hope in centuries, but has been fed and tortured on darker things-loneliness, desperation-it doesn't simply subside when faced with its own end. It doesn't accept or adapt, it exists in spite of reason, and will only ever defy it.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“Christopher- can I call you Christopher?' 'No,' said Kit. 'Christopher, family for me was never blood. It was always the family I chose.”
― Cassandra Clare, Queen of Air and Darkness

“There are many ways in which the "check brain" light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Most of us hide away when we are sad, Rose thought. But performers were sad in public. She liked how honest they all were. They opened up their hearts They took out every emotion-no matter how small or pathetic or odd-and celebrated it.”
― Heather O'Neill, The Lonely Hearts Hotel

“There was no fair way to compare what had been with what might have been. He just had to find a way forward.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, Stormcaster

“Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Hope, she thought, breathing with the tide, was a choice that only those with resolute hearts dared to make.”
― Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls

“A heart is only important to those who want to leave the place that tethers their souls and gives them form.”
― Ellen Oh, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

“A man, a novelist with the face of the English sky- full of weather, always in response, constantly shifting, clouding over only to clear briefly-stands before you.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

“The things you name do grow in power, but others that are not ever whispered claw at one's heart anyway, rip it to shreds even if a syllable does not escape the lips.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“I tended to spend too much time with my favorite things, loved them too hard until I wore them down. After a while, they became more like a shorthand for who I was and less like things I actually enjoyed.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, The Last of August

“It's early spring, some late or very early hour with Orion toppling backward onto the serrated edge of the mountains and not crying out but silent, silent as he tries to shoot the bull before it tramples him.”
― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars

“To never fear was to never hope. Never love. Never live. To never fear the dark was to never smile as the dawn kissed your face.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“The decided mind is a closed mind. A closed mind can keep you separated from the ultimate truth.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Toil & Trouble

“The human heart's default state is actually kindness.”
― Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

“You hear all the time that children are the future. But I refuse to settle for being the future when I can be right now.”
― Journey Jamison