Angela > Angela's Quotes

“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

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. Right”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The human spirit, you know what they say about the human spirit? Is is harder than a rock and more delicate than a flower petal.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

“This life is difficult. We lose fathers, brothers, mothers, songbirds and pieces of ourselves. Whips strike the innocent, honors go to the guilty, and there is too much loneliness. I would be a fool to pray for my children to escape all of that. Ask for too much and it might actually turn out worse. But I can pray for small things, like fertile fields, a mother’s love, a child’s smile—a life that’s less bitter than sweet.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl that Broke Its Shell

“it is the fear of what people will say that can turn people into puppets rather than unique individuals. If”
― Will Jelbert, The Happiness Animal

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Ninety percent of the people I’ve worked with who are disruptive or lazy or unskilled or addicts or likely to throw a tantrum are men. Ninety percent of the ones who get called “difficult” are women.”
― Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody

“If you need to fall, fall into me.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Gravity of Us

“The magic is in the tiny moments. The small touches, the gentle smiles, the quiet laughs. The magic is about living for today and allowing yourself to breathe and be happy. My dear boy, to love is the magic.”
― Brittainy C. Cherry, The Air He Breathes

“If I’m a monster, mademoiselle, it’s because man’s cruelty has made me so.”
― Rachel L. Demeter, Beauty of the Beast: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Retelling

“I hated her; I wanted her to burn, the way so many of the corrupted had burned, because she’d put her hold on them. But wanting cruelty felt like another wrong answer in an endless chain.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.”
― C. J. Cherryh

“After all, every story has a story.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker