Peter > Peter's Quotes

“We are the choices we make.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Falling is easy. Jumping is hard.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe

“We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

“Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in the road you build.”
― Andrew Smith, Grasshopper Jungle

“I wonder if I fucked it up. But if I hadn’t done it, I’d have wondered something else. Life is a series of choices between wonders.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Life's truest horror is a door that slams shut that can never be opened again.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, At the Edge of the Universe

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He prays his dwindling faith is faith enough”
― David Arnold, The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

“Perspective is a goddamn son of a bitch.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“In solitary reading a man who is seeking himself has some chance of finding himself.”
― Georges Duhamel

“Sometimes, Gansey felt like his life was made up of a dozen hours that he could never forget.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.”
― Alan Gratz, Grenade

“...[s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry

“The worst part about doing something inexcusable is that you can never take it back. It's like breaking a glass. It can't unbreak. The best you can do it sweep it up, and hope you don't step on the slivers you left behind.”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry

“Where the fuck is a Time-Turner when you need one?”
― Adam Silvera, What If It's Us

“But you never know how strong you really are or can be until it's the only choice you have”
― Jay Coles, Tyler Johnson Was Here

“You collect scars because you want proof that you are paying for whatever sins you've committed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“What he wanted was to know what he wanted.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“There was not much difference between a lie and a secret”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“The gods had not helped him these past ten years, and they would not save him now.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire

“We become what we are told we are.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Big secrets turn us into small men.” Benji”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“And it's hard to express the truth when the world wants you to be someone else.”
― Bill Konigsberg, Honestly Ben

“You ever have the feeling you lost something important, only to discover it was never there to begin with?”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland

“I wish wishing were enough, but it's not.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland