Gail > Gail's Quotes

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.”
― Anna Carey, Eve

“I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.”
― Anna Carey, Eve

“loving someone meant knowing your life will be worse without them in it.”
― Anna Carey, Eve

“Time itself is neutral.”
― Anna Carey, Eve

“This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.

I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."

Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine.

"These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“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

“Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse
you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse
you're letting go of
me
you're letting go”
― maggie stiefvater, Shiver

“You know on those nature shows when the cute little meerkat is strolling along on its four cute little meerkat legs to get back to her burrow where all her little meerkat politics, drama and family await her, and this big-ass eagle comes swooping overhead…? The smart little meerkat runs for cover and waits that big-ass eagle out. Some time passes, and the meerkat finally decides the eagle got bored and went off to scare the crap out of some other cute little meerkat. So, the meerkat crawls out from her hidey-hole to carry merrily on her way. And just when that little meerkat thought she was home free, that big-ass eagle swoops down and catches her in his big-ass claws. Well… I know exactly how that little meerkat felt…”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

“I wanted to create something beautiful in place of all the ugliness.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

“Life hurts.  As long as it doesn’t kill us, we weather it.”
― R.K. Lilley, In Flight

“You give good woo.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I want the woman with me who keeps my heart beating.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, Beneath This Man

“I knew you were the one the second I laid eyes on you.'

'The one?'

'The one to bring me back to life.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, Beneath This Man

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

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

“Love is beautiful fear”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“You did all of that for me?
I would declare war for you”
― Tijan, Carter Reed