Brie > Brie's Quotes

“I try to fend off the oceanic sadness, but I can't. It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find his Wheezy—"
"Find my what?"
"—and take his Wheezy back from the merpeople!"
"What's a Wheezy?"
"Your Wheezy, sir, your Wheezy — Wheezy who is giving Dobby his jumper!"
Bobby plucked at the shrunken maroon sweater he was now wearing over his shorts.
"What?" Harry gasped. "They've got... they've got Ron?"
"The thing Harry Potter will miss the most, sir!" squeaked Dobby.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“I wish I could put his words in my pocket just to touch them once in a while and remind myself that they exist.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“She moved like a storm someone had given steel to.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“tomorrow the sun would rise on the first day of a new desert.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Rebel of the Sands

“I called the desert into a storm.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“God, I knew I was in trouble even then. I was running for my life, bleeding on your floor, and all I could think about was kissing you and damn if we got caught.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“But then, this was what the desert did to us. It made us dreamers with weapons.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“I hated the quiet. I could hear my fears that much louder for it.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.”
― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.”
― Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.”
― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“... true faith never comes without anguish.”
― R.L. LaFevers, Grave Mercy

“We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“But a greater fear lurked deep in Celine. Past the rush of blood, into the marrow of her bones. No matter where she went, danger followed. And it horrified her. Just as it thrilled her.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Beautiful

“She was no lamb. She was a lion.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Beautiful

“No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― stephanie garber, Caraval