Irene > Irene's Quotes

“Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says, or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Morirse es mucho más difícil de lo que uno cree.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“Don't get caught.' This from a man who'd stolen a Jew.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Before Jem looks at anyone else, he looks at me, and I have tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. If I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You can’t make a race horse of a pig.” “No,” said Samuel, “but you can make a very fast pig.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear”
― Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The world doesn’t love you. If the police get you, the police don’t love you. When I beat you, I’m trying to save you. When they beat you, they’re trying to kill you.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“I never change, except in my affections.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I liked being tempted. I liked knowing I might make the wrong decision.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“The battle ended during the night. In the morning fresh snow fell. Under it the dead…Many had their arms raised up…toward the sky…You ask me: what is happiness? I answer…To suddenly find a living man among the dead…”
― Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

“I got as far as Berlin. I put my signature on the Reichstag: “I, Sofya Kuntsevich, came here to kill war.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, War's Unwomanly Face

“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What then, I thought to myself, madam, if I were utterly without Laws, as humans are? What if I could make no clear decision on what response to make to some given set of conditions? It would be unbearable and I do not willingly think of it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Robots and Empire

“You don't understand," I said, adding the most difficult claim of fealty I'd ever made, "That's my son.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“Ifemelu wanted, suddenly and desperately, to be from the country of people who gave and not those who received, to be one of those who had and could therefore bask in the grace of having given, to be among those who could afford copious pity and empathy.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Muereté, mi amor, suplico Ernesto de rodillas junto a la cama. Muereté hija, agregue yo en silencio, porque no me salio la voz...”
― Isabel Allende, Paula

“I'll go to them," he said in the softest voice. "And I will take the gold you offer me, and I will seek refuge in this tower. And I will learn from your passionate fledgling whatever he has to teach me. But I reach for these things only because they float on the surface of the darkness in which I am drowning.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Do you want to come with me now? DO YOU WANT TO COME WITH ME INTO THIS NOW? I hide nothing from you, not my ignorance, not my fear, not the simple terror that if I try I might fail. I do not even know if it is mine to give more than once, or what is the price of giving it, but I will risk this for you, and we will discover it together, whatever the mystery and the terror, just as I’ve discovered alone all else.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat