Issara Edwards > Issara's Quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost."
So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions."
An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You are reality itself. This is your journey.”
― Morgue, Book Zero: The Book that Should Not Be

“Our private lives are like a colony of worlds expanding, contracting, breathing universal air into separate knowledges. Or like several packs of cards shuffled together by an expert anonymous hand, and dealt out in a random, amused or even hostile way.”
― Gregory Maguire, After Alice

“Too much of oneself can be projected into the silence”
― Deborah Lutz, The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects

“Let the night come. We are not afraid.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

“The Anne Rice books are a lot about infection. I read "Interview With the Vampire" a million times when I was in seventh and eighth grade. Also, [writing Gavriel's backstory] definitely came from those books: I sat down and reread them all and thought a lot about… the way in which vampirism is pushing away from humanity in interesting ways, and creating something new from humanity. I imprinted on those books pretty hard.

Tanith Lee's "Sabella or the Blood Stone" was a big inspiration. I absolutely loved her books; when I was a kid, I wrote many bad Tanith Lee pastiches. Susie McKee Charnas' "The Vampire Tapestry." Poppy Z. Brite's "Lost Souls." Nancy Collins' "Sunglasses After Dark," which sounds like the most '80s title ever. It's about a vampire named Sonja Blue, and she goes around killing vampires. She's the only vampire who's half-alive. It's a really fun, blood-filled romp. It's very "Blade" before "Blade"--with a lady.”
― Holly Black

“I am Nothing. He liked the name. It did not make him feel worthless; on the contrary, he began to think of himself as a blank slate upon which anything could be written. The words inscribed on his soul were up to him.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

“Sleep has no place it can call its own.”
― Bram Stoker

“Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.”
― Paul Griffiths, Let Me Tell You

“Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God’s echoes and God is Narcissus.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

“Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“Most gossip is envy in disguise.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Almost everything she had done in her life, she realised - almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed - had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan