Aina > Aina's Quotes

“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Each man dreams his own heaven.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?”
― Dan Chaon, Among the Missing

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people.”
― Rachel Harrison, The Return

“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King