Rachel Munch > Rachel Munch's Quotes

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Where are you going?” I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn’t just walk away. “To hell, eventually,” Jameson answered. “Probably to the wine cellar, for now.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“I don't do vulnerable," Thea retorted. "It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“We don’t know how much our bodies can endure until we make cruel demands of them.”
― Jason Rekulak, Hidden Pictures

“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“A dreamer,” scorns her mother.

“A dreamer,” mourns her father.

“A dreamer,” warns Estele.

Still, it does not seem such a bad word.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“She is so endlessly interesting to him—it makes her heart hurt. She is endlessly interesting to her mother, too, but in a completely different way. Her father's love is a hummingbird. Her mother's is a hawk.”
― Melanie Gideon, Did I Say You Could Go

“Sometimes the lies are debunked. Other times they’re so ingrained in the public consciousness they might as well be truth.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, House of Glass

“But what is desire?"

"Absence," I said after some thought.”
― Ann Liang, A Song to Drown Rivers

“Time won't move slower even if you do.”
― Camilla Bruce

“It made the house look different—like a parrot in a flock of crows.”
― Camilla Bruce

“But when his mouth finds hers, they tell each other something neither of them could possible say: that they are two very lonely people hungry for touch, needing, it, starving for it.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“It's not your fault."
"It's not yours either.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“These last few days have felt like a door being opened very, very slowly. Now, finally, Ciara is ready to step through.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard

“It was easier than she'd thought it would be, but there is no solid ground on the other side.
She doesn't care. She lifts her face to his and kisses him.
She steps over the threshold and throws herself into the fall.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“The only way you can lose your own shadow is to stand in the dark.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“It was like someone had built him a bridge across the dark, turbulent water so, for once, he could take a break from trying to claw himself up from its tangled muddy depths.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“She doesn't know what to say. She manages, "What's this all for?"
"Well... you.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“He knows he's standing with his hand in the fire. He can see the flame tickling his skin. And past experience tells him that any moment now, the heat will burn through the outer layer to his nerve endings and drop him into a world of screaming pain.
There's no other possible outcome, he knows this.
But he just can't pull his hand away.
He likes the heat.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“Dividing people into good and evil is just lazy.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“I think you can absolutely change. Your problem has always been that you don't want to.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“Do you ever think," Karl says, "that maybe you have your shit together, it's just that your shit doesn't look like everybody else's?”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“Now she grieves for two people: the Oliver who never was, and the Shane who never got to be.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“She's found another one: there is a killer in her family.
But it's her.
The only solace she's been able to find is that she understands now there might be a difference between killing and being a killer.
She hopes, for her sake, that there is.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

“I guess I just want to remember the night I reconnected with happy for a few hours.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

“I thought you said you have a life."
"I do, but I suddenly feel like saving someone else's.”
― Lynn Painter, Happily Never After