Shellie > Shellie's Quotes

“I'll tell you a secret.
Something they don't teach you in your temple.
The Gods envy us.
They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.
You will never be lovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.”
― David Benioff

“Be careful who you point your blame at, Layla. And remember that anytime you point your finger to accuse someone, there are three fingers beneath it, curled to point right back at you.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer—and gold weighed a ton—and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“This is what we want,” she said, her voice deepening, the emotion so often controlled fully unbridled now. “To be like this always. No past or future, pure enough to live totally in the present.”
― Ron Rash, Serena

“Cowards always live to regret, because it’s only too late that they realize the journey is filled with people who are afraid.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“I tip my head back, gazing up at Kaleb as he stares down at us, having finished the lightbulb. “He’s your number one,” I hear Noah say. “He’s not supposed to be the one you spend your life with, right?”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“It’s warmer near the fire,” she whispers back.”
― Jescie Hall, That Sik Luv

“Some would call me broken,” I say again in indifference. “But I’ve never known anything other than the comfort of my pieces.”
― Jescie Hall, That Sik Luv

“I’m gonna suffocate you with that love you speak of, darling. Wrap it around that pretty little neck and paint you with my fucking heart.”
― Jescie Hall, That Sik Luv

“too much religion could be as bad as too little, maybe even worse;”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time