Cara > Cara's Quotes

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcastically. "Okay, God.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Squinting she jutted a finger at the doctor. "You did use your mind control on me. When we met. You...brainwashed me just like the queen. You made me trust you"
"Be fair. You were attacking me with a wrench.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of your life, and it's not often they turn out to be the same moment.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“None of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back.
Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency.
Because there's a bedtime.
Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and
If you don't respond soon,
I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Everyone else is so successful, and I hate them.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“That's how you avoid becoming a moth," he says. "Stop asking others what to believe. Figure it out for yourself.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.”
“It's like vodka,” Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“The Gray Man stood in the doorway behind Maura, his gray suitcase in one hand and a gray jacket slung over the other. He set them both down and straightened. There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

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

“Watch out for that pedestrian!"

"It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!”
― Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves