Amy Koto > Amy's Quotes

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“You know, over the years, I've had my share of friends, enemies, lovers, losses, and triumphs. With time, they all begin to run together, but you will find the real moments are vibrant. The rest just fades away. Your pain will fade.”
― klaus mikaelson

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
― Joss Whedon

“Have I gone mad? I'm afraid so.
You're entirely Bonkers.
But I will tell you a secret,
All the best people are.”
― Alice in wonderland, Alice in Wonderland

“Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.”
― Joss Whedon

“You are stronger than she thinks you are”
― Amy Koto

“Autumn killed the summer with the softest kiss.”
― d.j

“Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Whatever awful things you go through, however miserable you feel, those feelings will pass. But don't think for one second you can't show them now anyway. Who does it help keeping them in?”
― Alexandra Duffy

“If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU!”
― J.K. Rowling

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you've come.”
― Kim SeokJin

“You know you really love someone, when you don't hate them for breaking your heart.”
― Taehyung

“In every moment a choice exists. We can cling to the past or embrace the inevitability of change and allow a brighter future to unfold before us. Such an uncertain future may call for even more uncertain allies. Either way, a new day is coming whether we like it or not. The question is will you control it, or will it control you?”
― klaus mikaelson

“I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.”
― L.J. Smith

“No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...”
― Anne Lamott

“Books couldn't judge you or hurt you. They didn't make me feel small and insignificant. I know it's weird, but I always felt really close to the characters in books, like they were my true circle of friends, inviting me into their world.”
― Amy Koto, The Search for Alice

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Even though stories ended, there was always something left to be discovered.”
― Amy Koto, The Gatekeeper and her Guardian

“I was just me, but that was enough.”
― Amy Koto, The Gatekeeper and her Guardian

“Being a Gatekeeper wasn't just a calling or a job, it was who I was...who I was meant to be.”
― Amy Koto, The Gatekeeper and her Guardian

“Words are very powerful. They live on forever and they can be shared again and again. Each one of us may find something different within them, but they have the power to truly guide us and impact us in our lives.”
― Amy Koto, The Gatekeeper and her Guardian

“Because I am more darkness than girl. More winter shadow than August sunlight.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood

“The reason why a person lies is almost always more interesting than the lie itself”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors