Amy > Amy's Quotes

“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Places don't matter to people any more. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“It may seem strange, falling in love with someone because of a gesture, but sometimes you can read an entire person in a single moment. The way you can study a grain of sand and understand the universe. Love at first sight might or might not be a thing, but love in a single moment is.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“A panic state is not helpful to good decision making.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“My father—who is a true scholar and not just a young lady with an ink pen and a series of things she has to say—puts it much better: “If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some level there is always a doorway. A dividing point between here and there, us and them, mundane and magical. It is at the moments when the doors open, when things flow between the worlds, that stories happen.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“He blinked with the stunned expression of a man who knew the word no existed but had never actually met it in the flesh.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“We are at once far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough. We are powerful enough to radically reshape Earth's climate and biodiversity, but not powerful enough to choose how we reshape them.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I think two of the fundamental facts of being a person are 1. We must go on, and 2. None of us ever walks alone. We may feel alone (in fact, we will feel alone), but even in the crushing grind of isolation, we aren't alone.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I remember as a child hearing phrases like "Only the strong survive" and "survival of the fittest" and feeling terrified, because I knew I was neither strong nor fit. I didn't yet understand that when humanity protects the frail among us, and works to ensure their survival, the human project as a whole gets stronger.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“We probably didn't know what we were doing thousands of years ago as we hunted some large mammals to extinction. But we know what we're doing now. We know how to tread more lightly upon the earth. We could choose to use less energy, eat less meat, clear fewer forests. And we chose not to. As a result, for many forms of life, humanity is the apocalypse.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Once you were in possession of an actual idea, you owed it a debt for having chosen you, and not some other writer, and you paid that debt by getting down to work, not just as a journeyman fabricator of sentences but as an unshrinking artist ready to make painful, time-consuming, even self-flagellating mistakes.”
― Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Probably the most common last words that day were going to be Huh, that’s weird. That or Oh shit.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“if you hear hoofbeats in the distance, your first guess is that they’re horses, not zebras. And you’re hearing hoofbeats and jumping straight to unicorns.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“The birds, on the other hand, were going crazy. They filled the air with chirps and trills and songs. It was probably sparrow for Holy shit, what’s going on, we’re all gonna die, but it sounded pretty.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“In order to be heard by the oppressing class, one must speak as a member of it. Not only the language, but the diction. The accusation of tyranny, however well-founded in fact, is dismissed unless it is delivered in the manner that power recognizes as powerful.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“There’s a thing that happens,” Avasarala said, “when unthinkable things become thinkable. We’re in a moment of chaos. Everything’s up for grabs. Legitimacy itself is up for grabs. That’s where we are now.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“I wouldn’t want people to judge me by what I did in my twenties.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I think an inspirational quote can get you through hard times.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn’t last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I’ll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“What kept her in the kingdom was the previously unimaginable condition of not having to think about money, because that’s what money gives you: the freedom to stop thinking about money. If you’ve never been without, then you won’t understand the profundity of this, how absolutely this changes your life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel