Anne Secher > Anne's Quotes

“Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I’m a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but at least I was going to get into university.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.”
― Peggy Toney Horton, Stop the World and Get Off

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“It took me a long time to
realize that life isn’t about feeling the pain of others but understanding
the pain they are going through and why.”
― Jude Morrow, Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad?: A Memoir

“Trying to keep up appearances over the many years had become so exhausting that I often retreated to the safe place I had created in my mind.”
― Jude Morrow, Why Does Daddy Always Look So Sad?: A Memoir

“Who are you?”
A long, slow silence, and then the voice laughed. Konstantin wasn’t sure he heard it; he might only have seen it, in the quiver of the shadows on the wall.
“The bringer of storms,” murmured the voice with a certain satisfaction. “For once you so summoned me. But long ago men called me the Bear—Medved.”
“You are a devil!” whispered Konstantin, clenching his hands. All the shadows laughed. “As you like. But what difference is there between me and the one you call God? I too revel in deeds done in my name. I can give you glory, if you will do my bidding.”
― Katherine Arden

“This kiss though, this is different. This is the teeth of the zipper finally falling into place, closing the jacket. This is the gears of the machine lining up to mass produce manufactured bottles. This is drowning but never dying.”
― Brittany Colleen Pratt, The B-Side

“It is what originally caught my interest, but i lose interest in everything sooner or later. Everything save you. Because in you, i found my match. In you, i found my equal.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Jim Morrison

“Why does it always happen that just when I begin to feel life simply couldn't get any better, fate drops a disaster into my path to prove me right?”
― Dianne Freeman, A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder

“A mage's power either grows or weakens. Power never reamins still and neither does the strength of a nation. Only those who can find new sources of strength may earn a mage's name. Those who cannot, have no value to our people.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Spellslinger

“Live life today like there is no coffee tomorrow.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
― Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle

“Soldiers don't cry on a battlefield. They move forward. They fight.”
― Gosia Nealon, The Last Sketch

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“You know," he mutters, "I have never really understood why my sister chose you, above all others. 'What do you want to go marrying him for?' I said to her. 'What use is he?' Bartholomew takes his crook and places it squarely between his feet. "You know what she said to me?"
The husband, standing straight as a reed now, arms folded, lips pressed together, shakes his head. "What did she say?"
"That you had more hidden away inside you than anyone else she'd ever met.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet