Rachel > Rachel's Quotes

“Yael was a cobweb version, composed of gaps and strings and fragile nothings.”
― Ryan Graudin, Wolf by Wolf

“If she thought of her love as a commodity and were to, say, eat it, it would fill 4,745 cherry pies.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“Caring about him meant he had real power over her. That he held sway over her heart.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeline L'Engle

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Men can be like toddlers, Juliet. Sometimes all they need is something shiny to distract them.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Letters to the Lost

“...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“When it comes to controlling humans, there is no better instrument than lies.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“She bent most of the rules. She broke the rest.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Gathering of Shadows

“You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“We are standing at the edge of exploration, like God, creating life from darkness.”
― Rachel Menard, The Final Summons

“Though magic can shape life and death, love is the one thing it cannot control”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Death cannot be fooled or bought. Best be gone than left to rot.”
― Rachel Menard, Steel Hand, Cold Heart

“There was still something unfinished around her eyes; she wasn’t done yet. She was a story, not an epilogue. And if she chose to narrate her own life one word at a time as she descended the stairs to meet her newest arrival, that wasn’t hurting anyone. Narration was a hard habit to break, after all.

Sometimes it was all a body had.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“You can use words to hide things or not to touch them or to pretend that they are something different than they are.”
― M.R. Carey, The Girl with All the Gifts

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“If she wanted change, she had to smash the entire system. Only then could it be rebuilt.”
― Rachel Menard, Game of Strength and Storm

“The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables