Cassandra Galindo > Cassandra's Quotes

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

“How were you supposed to change- in ways both big and small- when your family was always there to remind you of exactly the person you apparently signed an ironclad contract to be?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Family is found...whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“Waves that beautiful are rare. That is the thing about the water, it is not yours to control, you are at the mercy of nature.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“I'm on vacation. Vacations always end. It's the very fact that it's finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn't be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spend there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Living, being responsible for myself, seems like an insurmountable challenge lately.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

“As animals subject to the laws of earth, we think time is experience. But time is more a substance, like air, only of course not air. It is in fact a holy element.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

“The average man is proof the average woman can take a joke,” he said.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

“The world was tender with significance.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“My thoughts are slow and ponderous now, rumbling deep in the heart of eternity, but I see the whole of life beneath me.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“The stories of Perseus did not allow for a Medusa with a story of her own.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I would have to admit that somewhere within me something else was stirring – something akin to fear but electric with vitality.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“All mortals live and die by the threads they spin - and each mortal shall die when they cut that thread.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there's power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“The things you name grow in power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Fear is generous and does not exclusively lodge in the hearts of mortals.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“She had a knack for quiet insurrection.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow