Reading is my Escape > Reading is my Escape's Quotes

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It is very often the ordinary things that go unnoticed that end up making a difference. As you embark upon your high school careers, be unnoticed, but be remarkable.”
― Michele Weber Hurwitz, The Summer I Saved the World . . . in 65 Days

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You'll stay with me?'
Until the very end,' said James.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

“I should have known better, of course. Whenever I’m feeling up to the mark and congratulating myself, some fearful fate trips me headlong, and I find myself haring for cover with my guts churning and Nemesis in full cry after me.”
― George MacDonald Fraser, Flash for Freedom!

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
― Mark Twain

“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“To all the kids who don't belong, for whatever reason. This one's for you.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“My dad says the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“My dad always says that kindness is our religion and if we treat everybody the way we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“only bookworms get excited over other bookworms”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“Who would have ever though that a person could be so powerful, then so completely powerless, all in the same lifetime?”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“... even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“It was only when I stopped pretending to be someone else that I found my real friends.”
― Firoozeh Dumas, It Ain't So Awful, Falafel

“You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide.
No guide, that is, but courage”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form...
Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children.”
― Adam Gidwitz, A Tale Dark & Grimm

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“No one warned you that having children reduced you right down to some smaller, rudimentary, primitive version of yourself, where your talents and your education and your achievements meant nothing. Clementine”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“Two musicians could play the same notes and sound entirely different. Intonation was everything.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning