Michele > Michele's Quotes

“A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“Where books had been a comfort before, they became a necessity, old books best of all: thick heavy tomes with stories that spread and twisted through other worlds, where he could walk like a ghost in the footsteps of other lives.”
― Alexia Casale, House of Windows

“I have always found that making allowances for a liberal amount of fiction in one’s life is necessary to maintaining equanimity. How else does one escape, even for a short time, from the drudgery that everyday life affords?”
― Maria Grace, Longbourn: Dragon Entail

“She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."

"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“This time their kiss would last for generations.”
― Mari Collier, Thalia and Earth

“He was still wet with sweat and the coffee did little to cool things, but he needed it because it was an old friend and starting the day without it was unthinkable.”
― John Grisham, A Time for Mercy

“You were enduring these terrible attacks, yet you never sought help?” “From who?” “What about law enforcement? The police?” Jake’s heart froze at the question. He was stunned by it, but prepared, as was his witness. With perfect timing and diction, Kiera looked at Dyer and said, “Sir, I was being raped by the police.”
― John Grisham, A Time for Mercy