Lisa > Lisa's Quotes

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“What other people see is a bossy, spoiled little boy. They don't know that the smallest of changes, like a drop of orange pop on his white t-shirt, can bother him so much he can't wear it any longer, the stain physically pains him, like the spot becomes a wound bleeding not from the inside out but the outside in.”
― Riel Nason The Town that Drowned

“The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

“You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent”
― Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle