Eilidh > Eilidh's Quotes

“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Not quite sure how far she’d already fallen, she imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“He looked like a freshly woken storm, or a beautiful nightmare come to life so he could personally haunt her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“I know Caraval can be magical and romantic and wonderful, but the spells it casts aren’t easily shaken off, and half the time I don’t even think people realise they have been bewitched.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“We often wait for kindness...but being kind to yourself can start now.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Good luck, everyone.
Good luck to us all.
And may we meet again on distant shores.
Some place fine and far from here.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio

“Beauty attracts beauty and begets beauty.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“One could construct a hundred different narratives, it didn’t make them true.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“It’s no good telling tales without a drink.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Books, moonlight, melodrama.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Loyalty to the family is rewarded, and impertinence is punished. Remember that and you shall be very happy.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“He needed her and she needed him. That was how most disasters began.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Take me back. Make me into someone who has never been done harm. Go as far as you can. Make me brand-new. No bruises. No scars.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“You couldn’t keep sidling up to death and dipping your toe in. Eventually it grabbed your ankle and tried to pull you under.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“I c-c-class p-p-profanity with declarations of love. Best used sparingly and only when wholeheartedly m-m-meant.
-Darlington”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Love is certainly never safe, but it’s absolutely worth it.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Bravery wasn't an identity, so much as a choice.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“She was the woman who’d come here to ask about love. She was the woman who’d decided to change her entire life with nothing but a list. She was the woman who survived, every single day. She was Chloe fucking Brown, and she was starting to wonder if she’d been brave from the beginning. If she’d just needed to love herself enough to realize it.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Behind every witch is a woman wronged.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Be brave, be curious, be kind.”
― Anna James, Tilly and The Bookwanderers

“Books can change minds and change worlds, open doors and open minds, and plant seeds that can grow into magical or even terrifying things. Stories are things to be loved and respected at the same time; never underestimate the power of them.”
― Anna James, Anna James Pages & Co Collection 2 Books Set

“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“the very thought of you
has my legs spread apart
like an easel with a canvas
begging for art”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“you were a dragon long before
he came around and said
you could fly

you will remain a dragon
long after he's left”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey