Sarah > Sarah's Quotes

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“In retrospect, I see that this was my education., the one that would matter: the hours I spent sitting at a borrowed desk, struggling to parse narrow strands of Mormon doctrine in mimicry of a brother who'd deserted me. The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Curiosity is a luxury for the financially secure.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Mr. Parnassus arched an eyebrow. "The world is a weird and wonderful place. Why must we try and explain it all away? For our personal satisfaction?”
― T.J. Klune

“Linus retorted. "I refused to believe that. We are who are we are not because of our birthright but because of what we choose to do in this life. It cannot be boiled down to black and white. Not when there is so much in between.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Food is one of the best things about being alive.
Not just food. Good food. There is a chasm between sustenance and satisfaction, and while she spent the better part of three hundred years eating to stave off the pangs of hunger, she has spent the last fifty delighting in the discovery of flavor. So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

“Everything you're seeing up in the night sky happened thousands of years ago, because the light takes so long to reach us. I always thought it was so strange.... that sailors chart where they're going in the future by looking at a map of the past.”
― Jodi Picoult, Wish You Were Here

“How does it feel for a child to play hockey? It's not so hard to answer that. Have you ever been in love? That's how it feels.”
― Fredrick Backman, Us Against You

“It's not a voluntary process, it's an emotional assault; you become someone else's property the first time you hear your child cry. You belong to that little person now. Before everything else. So when something happens to your child, it never stops being your fault.”
― Fredrick Backman, Us Against You

“It's hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else's lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
― Fredrick Backman, Us Against You

“They run only where there are lights. They don't say anything but are both thinking the same thing: guys never think about light, it just isn't a problem in their lives. When guys are scared of the dark, they're scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they are scared of guys.”
― Fredrick Backman, Us Against You

“You try to be a good parent, in every way, but you never know how. It's not a difficult job. Just impossible.”
― Fredrick Backman, Us Against You

“He said you don't have to lead by telling other people what to do, you can lead by just letting them do what they're capable of instead. So I tried to be a teacher more than a boss.”
― Fredrick Backman, Anxious People

“They say that a person's personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn't true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we'd never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we're more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrick Backman, Anxious People

“It's the smallest things that can change everything when you least expect it.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“In all my days, in all my travels, I've never come across a more foolish bunch. And I think it fits. Humans were foolish. Careless. Cruel. But only a few. Most were full of light.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“Your flaws are what make you superior, in all ways. No matter what machines can do, no matter how powerful we become, it is the absence of flaws that will be our undoing. How can this existence survive when machine-made things are perfect down to a microscopic detail? When all machine-made music is empyt of rage and joy?”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets