Natalie Cranberry > Natalie's Quotes

“The law is whatever is successfully argued and plausibly maintained,”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Omne ignotum pro magnifico;”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Everything Man sees he takes for a toy.
Thus is he always, forever a boy.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic

“Prague. Praha. The name actually meant “threshold”. Pollina had said the city was a portal between the life of the good and … the other. A city of dark magic, Alessandro had called it.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic

“Men were ridiculous, in all cultures and across time.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic

“History should be studied but not worshipped.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Dark Magic

“Harmony: It's not a competition. We already like you. There is no need to brag about your achievements.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“It is worth noting that the main players in the recomposition project are women—scientists, anthropologists, lawyers, architects. Educated women, who have the privilege to devote their efforts to righting a wrong. They’ve given prominent space in their professional careers to changing the current system of death. Katrina noted that “humans are so focused on preventing aging and decay—it’s become an obsession. And for those who have been socialized female, that pressure is relentless. So decomposition becomes a radical act. It’s a way to say, ‘I love and accept myself.”
― Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

“I love you, Gretchen Lang. You are my reflection and my shadow and I will not let you go. We are bound together forever and ever! Until Halley’s Comet comes around again. I love you dearly and I love you queerly and no demon is bigger than this!”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“When those things happened, they learned that although those inches may add up to miles, sometimes those miles were only inches after all.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“You cannot hear the birds for all the gossip.”
― Magnus Flyte, City of Lost Dreams

“The male doesn't eat - it doesn't even have a mouth or an anus - so it does nothing but mate until death.”
― Amy Stewart, Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects

“By the power of Phil Collins, I rebuke you!” she said. “By the power of Phil Collins, who knows that you coming back to me is against all odds, in his name I command you to leave this servant of Genesis alone...
By the power of The Thorn Birds - she cried - by the sacred strength of My Sweet Audrina and Forever...
By the power of lost retainers and Jamaica and bad cornrows and fireflies and Madonna, by all these things I rebuke you”
― Grady Hendrix

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Silence creates its own violence.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.”
― Emmanuelle Alt

“She was both proud of the fact that she had raised a strong-minded daughter and resentful of my sharp opinions.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer