Bruna Miranda > Bruna's Quotes

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up all the romance that her age and environment led her to desire”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“C'mon, Amory. Your romance is over
You don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole trouble”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“(...) that the creature I loved was lying somewhere in a hole underground, to all intents and purposes dead until dark.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“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

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

“What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'
'Cats don't have names,' it said.
'No?' said Coraline.
'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“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