Sabrina > Sabrina's Quotes

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“He looked different in sleep, beautiful but cold as moonlight. I found myself wishing he would wake so that I might watch the life return.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“If you are too weak to stand being hit and too stupid to avoid it, then you deserve more pain.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“They are less than the mud. You do not get angry at the mud for clinging to your shoe. You wipe it off and never look at it again.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“It was a lonely, cold thing to live without expectations.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“You have both been so busy learning tactics and studying battles, you have failed to see the truth of where thrones are won and lost. It is in the gossip, the words and letters passed in dark corners, the shadow alliances and the secret payments. You think I am worthless? I can do things you could never dream of.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“Do not thank me. All I did was teach them to fear me. How does that help you? Next time you hit first, you hit harder, you make certain that your name means fear and pain. I will not be here to save you again.”
― Kiersten White, And I Darken

“Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You better have kissed him! You better have kissed him so hard that he just about choked on your tongue. And if not, you better go kiss him like that right now.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I love you,” Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all. “I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I’ve loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magical people.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you?"
"Because he was false", said Damen, "and you are true. I have never known a truer man.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“After a moment, Laurent said, ‘He would have liked you.’

‘Even after I started courting his little brother?’ said Damen carefully.

He watched Laurent stop, the way that he did when he was taken by surprise, and then lift his eyes to meet Damen’s.

‘Yes,’ said Laurent softly, his cheeks reddened slightly.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, no matter what they want.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

“Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

“Don't let the muggles get you down.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“There is nothing I can do to keep time from wedging more of itself between us.”
― Will Kostakis, The Sidekicks

“To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

“Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

“I thought this would feel different,” Mehmed said, melancholy shaping his words like a song. He leaned against Radu, finally giving him the contact he had craved for so long.
“So did I,” Radu whispered.”
― Kiersten White, Now I Rise

“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid