Melanie Golden > Melanie's Quotes

“You hate because you are scared, and you fear because you don’t understand.”
― Jo Treggiari, Ashes, Ashes

“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Despite that, for a fleeting moment I have the urge to ask if Dean Thomas is still in Gryffindor, or if he’s gone over to Hufflepuff, where I’d always believed he belonged. But my father wouldn’t get the joke, and in this case, Dean isn’t a first name.”
― Mimi Cross, Before Goodbye

“We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and feeling without expressing.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Living in the mistakes of your past isn’t going to do anything but destroy your future.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Out of Breath

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“There was no planning for insanity. With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins.”
― Hugh Howey, Shift

“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
― Henry Miller

“So there you go. You can love the good in us and hate the bad, but the bad is in us, too. Without it, we wouldn’t be us.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“he began to realize how much he had to learn about how different the world was from the theory of it.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
― Hugh Howey, Dust

“Beauty and earthy common sense were a rare combination, yet he doubted she was even aware she possessed it. By”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Anything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.’” “Stupid”
― Rachel Caine, Paper and Fire

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history;”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“But the fire of true hatred, I realize, cannot exist without the oxygen of affection. I would not hurt so much, or hate so much, if I did not care.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“As much anger as I harbor toward him for leaving you, I understand it just as well. And understanding breeds empathy, and empathy leads to forgiveness, which is the ultimate gift you can give someone. Sometimes it’s the hardest gift to give to yourself.”
― Joe Hart, The Last Girl

“Because here’s the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”
― Holly Smale, All That Glitters