Katie Umland > Katie's Quotes

“If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.”
― Clamp, xxxHOLiC, Vol. 13

“Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.”
― Chris Colfer

“no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it”
― Rachel Roberts, Trial By Fire

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”
― Chris Colfer

“The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.”
― Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen and Leviathan

“You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel”
― Thomas Sniegoski, Aerie and Reckoning

“Told ya you were special.”
― Thomas E. Sniegoski, The Fallen

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“A monster?"

Yeah, And it was cleaning my sweater!"
Oh, yeah, lucky you were there, we can't have Monsters running around the perseve Washing Sweaters!”
― Rachel Roberts

“There is a sign in the heavens
Another light in the darkness
A better time is beginning
There is a fire star coming

I see the mark of the ice bear
In the tears of the dragon
And you'd better start wishing
There is a fire star coming

Stay with me, my love......

....Until the stars have blinked their last
Wherever on this earth you walk
He will arouse, excite, inspire,
My Valentine, my one dark fire.......
”
― Chris D'Lacey, Fire Star

“True love is actually very hard to understand... Everybody is looking for love, everybody is fighting for love... But because they can't bear to say it outloud, they express it through songs”
― Yuu Watase

“To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle”
― Yuu Watase

“There are powers in the words. With this you can save lives, but also it's something that can kill.”
― Yuu Watase, Alice 19th, Vol. 1

“People are like flowers--they don’t all have to be the same. Everything blooms according to its own nature.”
― Yuu Watase

“Irma looked around her bedroom desperately. Her eyes fell on the stack of schoolbooks lying on top of her vanity table. Homework! Homework trumped everything! Irma dived toward the desk and scooped up a couple of textbooks.

"I want to do my homework!" she wailed. "I have to study. Send Leafy instead of me!" Irma pointed to her pet turtle.

"Your turtle is not going on a date with Martin Tubbs!”
― Elizabeth Lenhard, The Last Tear

“A world without change," he said, "is a world without hope”
― Elizabeth Lenhard, The Last Tear

“That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“You need to let yourself be happy. Or else, what's the point of anything?”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“He’d never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“I love you,” he whispered, staring into eyes that were aglow with firelight, and something else.
“I love you too.”
― Kass Morgan, Day 21

“Endings and beginnings are inseparable, like the moment before dawn and the moment after.”
― Kass Morgan, Homecoming

“I don’t want to spend another day without you. I want to go to sleep every night with you by my side and wake up next to you every morning. I want nothing else but you, for the rest of my life.”
― Kass Morgan, The Hundred

“That was the worst part about losing someone—finding a place to store all the thoughts and feelings you’d otherwise share with them.”
― Kass Morgan, Homecoming

“The rain was only water, and there was no such thing as a clean start. That was the thing with secrets - you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.”
― Kass Morgan, The 100

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game