Kimmie > Kimmie's Quotes

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”
― Jim Henson

“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“The summers have been shorter since the last dragon died, and the winters longer and crueler.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“No woman should be made to fear that she was not enough.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War

“Life and death, they're equal to this cosmos. We enter the material world and we go away again, reincarnated into something better.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“That's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I touch a finger to one of my smallpox scars. Grandmother and Miss Zhao exchange glances, then return their faces to me, both of them smiling. “Don’t you know that those heavenly flowers marks are what make you so beautiful?” asks Miss Zhao, who I’ve always considered to be even more exquisite than Respectful Lady. “Total perfection is not so desirable.”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle Of Women

“I kinda thought the treasure was going to be like the experience of being here or something metaphorical like that.’ Noah glanced at her, a smirk teasing around his mouth. ‘I’m not that deep, Haze. And I like treasure.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

“Seokga closes his eyes and listens to the sound of his own heart breaking, over and over and over again.”
― Sophie Kim, The God and the Gumiho

“You have survived!” Zak said, his voice broken by muffled tears. “Survived the Academy, where all the others died!”
― R.A. Salvatore, Homeland

“Belwar reached into a deep pocket and took out the light-giving brooch. “Take this, dark elf,” he said softly, flipping it to Drizzt, “and do not forget me.” “Never for a single day in all the centuries of my future,” Drizzt promised. “Never once.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Exile

“Of all the people I have ever met, none has held themselves to higher standards of honor and decency than Catti-brie.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

“It takes a lifetime to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour,” she recites. “Life without a friend is life without sun. Life without a friend is death.”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women

“Birds fly home to die, and foxes retreat to their burrows. Some things are inevitable.”
― Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle Of Women

“Maybe. Sometimes,’ she conceded. ‘But it was the least I could do…’ ‘Other people would have done less.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Christmas Tree Farm

“When the rest crumbles—the worst angles, the meanest versions of events, the lies I told myself—what’s left is only Kit. Only the great unfinished love of my life, and a floor I’m still lying under.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Kiss me, haunt me, handle me recklessly.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“It’s one of those small details that reminds me these places are real and belong to people we’ll rarely meet while passing through, that Florence will forget us even if we remember it for the rest of our lives. I find it terribly romantic, the evanescence.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“I’d had the gift of being loved to the center of my soul twice in my life, and even if both of those people were gone, the love had been there. It was still there, in the shape it had made me into.”
― Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

“Oh, it was a book I liked when I was young. It was about a girl who wrote a Victorian project on a little maid called Lottie. I’ve still got that book in a trunk somewhere at home, if you’re interested.”
― Jacqueline Wilson, Think Again