Debbie > Debbie's Quotes

“What do your crazy speciests do?” Kizzy asked.
Sissix shrugged. “Live on gated farms and have private orgies.”
“How is that any different than what the rest of you do?”
“We don’t have gates and anybody can come to our orgies.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back. ”
― Kevin Brooks, Lucas

“Sex.
I was going to have sex.
With a boy.
A hot boy.
A hot BRITISH boy.
Or maybe I was going to throw up.
What if I threw up on the hot British boy?
What if I threw up on the hot British boy DURING SEX?”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“Four.
That’s the number of people who saw me hiding around the corner from my own apartment in just a skirt and a bra. Eleven.
That’s the number of ant bites I got on my shoeless feet.
Twenty-seven.
That’s the number of times I was tempted to do myself physical harm because I am an IDIOT.
One.
That’s the number of times I tried not to cry, but failed.”
― Cora Carmack, Losing It

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable. I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's not getting over that.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust?”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I choose you over everyone.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“Books fall open, you fall in.”
― David T.W. McCord