j > j's Quotes

“They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones. They pray for sons with red eyes and daughters with horns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“We were not made to please princes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night. The more I wanted, the more I became like them, the more real I became.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“We may not get to choose how we die, but we can choose how we live.
The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering, and that I was human after all.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men