Bri > Bri's Quotes

“But that was the nature of life and loss: There was never enough time.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Crown of Feathers

“These are the costs of war: a thousand shattering moments of pain and loss and a lifetime of regret.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“If I am to become naught but ruin, may it be so that you can build anew upon the ashes.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“How many times could a person hurt you and your love for them endure?
Then again, surely only love could make words like hers cut so deeply? Love didn't stop people from hurting each other-- love made it easier.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“There was a difference between friendship and family, between the people you chose to surround yourself with and the people you were stick with, good or bad.”
― Nicki Pau-Preto, Crown of Feathers

“But that’s the nice thing about looking backwards. You can pick out the bits that suit your story and toss the unhappy truths to the wind.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity.”
― Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred

“But time has a way of folding itself, like a map, distances and journeys and hours and minutes tucked neatly away to leave just the realness of the before and the now, as close as hands pressed on the either side of a rice-paper door.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Yet hope there is still, if we can but stand unconquerable for a little while.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He tells you to play, so you play. He tells you to curtsy, so you curtsy. He tells what you are meant to do and what you are meant not to do, so you do and you dono do. He tells you not to be angry, so you smile, you turn your eyes down, you are quiet and do exactly as he says in the hopes that this is what he wants, and then one night you realize that you have given him so much of yourself that you are nothing but the curtsy and the smile and the quiet. That you are nothing.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We are all someone's monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
"So?" said Kaz.
"Well, usually it's just half the city.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Music is music. The source of it does not matter so much.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“It is a long battle to fight,” she said, “but you must still fight it. Speak for those less fortunate than yourself, who will need your help. Speak for the ones who will come after you, looking to you for guidance. Stay true, daughter. One day, you will see it all go up in flames.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it's supposed to be.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“There is no glory except straight through your story.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“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

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“True is what men believe, and they believe this of you.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Perhaps such things pass for virtue among the gods. But how is there glory in taking life? We die so easily. Would you make him another Pyrrhus? Let the stories of him be something more.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who remains.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War