Laura Z > Laura Z's Quotes

“Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“Discovering a new phobia was like the opposite of falling in love.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

“People here are not accustomed to seeing economic disputes settled with guns, but every economy runs on bullets, one way or another.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

“Listen to yourself, hear your own footsteps, your breaths, your heartbeats, oh, how many rhythms you make as you come and go! you are an orchestra.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

“If you only give a little bit - of the truth, of your time, of money - then you're being sincere. Give too much, and you're probably just careless, and it means nothing.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

“Destiny is a pretty story we tell ourselves. Lurking beneath it there are only people, and the terrible choices we make.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“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

“Sometimes I feel there are doors lurking in the creases of every sentence, with periods for knobs and verbs for hinges.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk[.]”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“Once we have agreed that true love exists, we may consider its nature. It is not, as many misguided poets would have you believe an event in and of itself; it is not something that happens, but something that simply is and always has been. One does not fall in love; one discovers it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“He thinks we’re what we look like on the outside: nice Southern ladies. Let me tell you something…there’s nothing nice about Southern ladies.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“You’d rather get stabbed forty-one times than ruin the curb appeal of your home?” Maryellen asked.
“Yes,” Grace said.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“I've had three children . . . And some man who's never felt . . . his baby crown is stronger than me? Is tougher than me?”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“Being a teenager isn't a number, " Maryellen said. "It's the age when you stop liking them.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“A reader lives many lives,” James Harris said. “The person who doesn’t read lives but one. But if you’re happy just doing what you’re told and reading what other people think you should read, then don’t let me stop you. I just find it sad.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires