Karen > Karen's Quotes

“I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes.”
― Anna Peters

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Even if the truth is dark, there’s still beauty in knowing it at last.”
― Cidney Swanson, Rippler

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“There’s always hope. You might lose the things you love, the people you live for, but there’s always more to be found if you look hard enough.” ”
― Owen Baillie, Escape

“We grow into ourselves and eventually, if we just have some patience, we can feel comfortable as we are before we fade.”
― Ann Christy, The In-Betweener

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

“Sometimes you can’t tell people things because you know they won’t hear you.”
― Sarah Noffke, Rebels

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“One must weather the storm to spy the rainbows.”
― Sarah Noffke, Paralyzed

“Life is full of magic and if you try and explain it all then you lose the opportunity for bewilderment, which is a beautiful thing – Dr. Dave Raydon”
― Sarah Noffke, Paralyzed

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.”
― Confucius

“I wouldn’t know what normal people do,” she said, and curled her head down until it was resting on his chest, his heartbeat music to her ears.”
― Sarah Noffke, Released

“Is this what normal people do?” he asked. “Do they wake up every day next to someone they love and receive affection?”
― Sarah Noffke, Released

“Yes, you’re adorable, aren’t you? Are you a good boy, Snugglepumpkin?” Oberon wagged his tail and came over within petting distance. “Oh, yes, you are a good boy, yes, you are.” She stopped making sense and instead made high-pitched squeals of delight as she scratched Oberon’s giant head; the rest of us stood and watched as a woman with an advanced degree completely lost her mind. Okay,”
― Kevin Hearne, Tricked

“Like many silly codes of bravery and manliness, the meat of my father’s instruction on how to die well can be distilled to a simple slogan: Die angry at maximum volume. (Dying silently is out of the question; the world’s last Druid should not go gentle into that good night.) During”
― Kevin Hearne, Tricked

“Life is entirely too short for fear to be a factor in how we live it.”
― Ann Christy, Strikers

“A gunshot is a terrible thing to wake up to.”
― Ann Christy, Strikers

“It was easier to pretend I didn’t miss him. Of course, I had lost more than a friend when that happened. He was my first boyfriend, my first bad kiss and then, my first heartbreak.”
― Ann Christy, Strikers

“Life was a series of small and not so small emergencies with gifts of calm between.”
― Ann Christy, Deep Dark

“Her voice sounded as if she had dipped it in sarcasm and then coated it in broken glass.”
― Ann Christy, Going Dark

“It was said that one could never win an argument with a Historian because if they were wrong about something they would admit it before anyone else knew they were wrong. And if they were right they would never engage in the argument, only inform the other what was correct and walk away.”
― Ann Christy, Deep Dark

“Humans were simply meant to be smiled at, I think. Without the smiles of others, we lose our idea of what happiness looks like.”
― Ann Christy, The In-Betweener