Lu > Lu's Quotes

“I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

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

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Of course I loved books more than people.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

“She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future … which suddenly felt so uncertain.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“And although we'd sworn we'd never become like them, that was exactly what was happening. We weren't even fifteen yet.
Thirteen, fourteen, adult, dead.”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Meaning is not something you can sell”
― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”
― Giacomo Puccini

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Just because you can doesn't mean you should.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

“It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

“Bitch please...you haven't seen mean yet.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

“I wasn't born, I was unleashed.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dance with the Devil

“You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of the Night

“The lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls."
"-Nero”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Fire

“Aricles and I are married. The Greek god Apollo found out and he threatened to discredit and shame me before the other gods unless Aricles refused to fight. To protect my honor and name, he has allowed all of you to insult and attack him, and I will not stand for him to be hurt again. By anyone." Bathymaas”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Bites

“The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shape. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx

“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed