Marhaba Gul > Marhaba's Quotes

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Finally, Cinder gulped. "I'm sorry I had to --" She gestured at the unconscious wedding coordinator, then waved her hand like shaking it off. "But she'll be fine, I swear. Maybe a little nauseous when she comes to, but otherwise...And your android...Nainsi, right? I had to disable her. And her backup processor. But any mechanic can return her to defaults in about six seconds, so..." She rubbed anxiously at her wrist. "Oh, and we ran into your captain of the guard in the hallway, and a few other guards, and I may have scared him and he's, um, unconscious. Also. But, really, they'll all be fine. I swear." Her lips twitched into a brief, nervous smile. "Um...hello, again. By the way.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“Not doing pictures these days?" Jacin muttered as they hurried through the shop. "How very Lunar of you."

Cinder glared against the sudden, burning sunlight. "Very wanted criminal of me too.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in was not an option.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“You're a good guy, Thorne." She paused. "Well, you have your moments.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“The day will come when we strike you down,” she’s saying. “Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares.”

I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. “I am the nightmare.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“None of us are saints. We can all do better.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“Nothing burns like the cold.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.”
― Jay Asher, What Light

“I don't know how to fully enjoy any of these moments without wondering if it's the last.”
― Jay Asher, What Light

“I looked him straight in the eye. "What was it your father used to say?" Hans said nothing. He turned his head away. "What's the use of running, if we are on the wrong road?”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“Yes, you have the very soul of me, Elisabeth.”
“Then your name, mein Herr.”
He laughed softly, but it was a gasp of pain, not of joy. “No.”
“Why?”
“So you will forget me,” he said simply. “You cannot love a man with no name.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“...perfection is an illusion nurtured by insecurities.”
― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect

“True love sees past all that and focuses on your heart. If you love someone, tell them. It doesn’t matter if they say it back to you. Whoever makes you feel that deeply and that intensely, deserves to know how they’ve impacted you.”
― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect

“We’re led to believe love is complicated. It’s not the love that’s complicated. It’s all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you’re smart, you’ll realize this before it’s too late and simplify.”
― Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect

“Sometimes a beautiful face is false advertising.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Secrets are a snake’s way of doing business.” “And snakes survive,”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Bravery did not come to her naturally. She spent too much time weighing her options to be brave. Too much time calculating the many paths before her. But Mariko knew it was time to do more. Time to be more. She would not die a coward.”
― Renee Ahdieh, Flame in the Mist

“The new trick is to stay in the present ... Get lost in the detail of it ... Enjoy it!”
― Sally Green, Half Bad

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common.”
― Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies

“When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“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