Melissa > Melissa's Quotes

“That idea...it was you.
You are the universe’s fairytale come true.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
― Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“To me, religion is the Walmart of spirituality ... I mean it's prepackaged. Lowest common denominator. People just have to follow the present motions and rituals and rules. The don't have to think about how the words reconcile with their own hearts. Their own experience.”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Porcupine of Truth

“More and more these days, I'm realizing that I might be crazy, but I'm loved too. I don't think I ever really knew that before, but I do now.”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Porcupine of Truth

“Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes

“Paradise will be a kind of library”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
― Augustine Birrell

“Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement”
― J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library

“We step out of our solar system into the universe seeking only peace and friendship – to teach, if we are called upon; to be taught, if we are fortunate.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“When I had
no friends
I reached inside
my beloved
books
& sculpted some
out of
12 pt
Times new roman.

-- & it was almost good enough.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“a
world
where all

human beings
are taken care of

shouldn't be called

a "revolutionary"
way of life

& yet
it is.

-burn”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“my self-worth shouldn’t feel like an act of bravery.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

“It is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable.”
― Dr. Leonard Church

“If you deliberately put out a bowl of milk for the little people, or whatever equivalent gesture, they’d come and suck up the tiny bit of mana that came from your intent, and then they’d leave your house alone in order to preserve the regular supply.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate