Maria > Maria's Quotes

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“But we escaped into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength there.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray

“you got one choice at the beginning, but if you didn't choose right..things got narrow real quick.”
― Ron Rash, Serena

“My good sense bitch slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“A wide valley of the dead spread out below me, hundreds of them gently tucked into the ground in neat rows, their whispers frozen into the stones above them: I am here. I was here. Remember me. Remember.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn’t even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory

“How do we live with all the suffering? We see our ugly parts, and then we are able to forgive, love kindness, walk humbly.”
― Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World

“She doesn't need to believe in God or even remember Him to do His work. Her belief is in her deeds, which is okay.”
― Francisco X. Stork, Marcelo in the Real World

“At our mothers' knees we learn the music that turns words into kisses or curses.”
― Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

“Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“He had not known to be born afraid, but he'd learned.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“I thought perhaps a small piece of life fixed and began to shuffle all the old memories of my father into a pattern more pleasing to me than what I'd carried for so long.”
― M O Walsh

“Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“They set up her nursery in the bedroom in the attic, where things that were not wanted were kept”
― Celeste Ng

“You're not living if you're not regretting.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Jude taught me what love was: to be willing to hold on to another person's pain. That's it.”
― Stephanie Oakes, The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly

“This school devours privacy, and rumors are like drops of blood in an ocean full of predators.”
― Stephanie Kuehn, Charm & Strange

“...Devon wore the face of a stone Artemis.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.”
― Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

“People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“She sat on the end of Blue’s bed, looking as soft as a poem in the dim light.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“A good parent prepares the child for the path, not the path for the child.”
― Jen Hatmaker, For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards

“Appearances, appearances. The great facade. How to Live Blindly in a Blind World 101.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Jack lit his cigarette, holding it between strong white teeth before passing it over. Like a secondhand kiss on a breath of ash.”
― K. Ancrum

“...he moved ever more slowly in both his body and thoughts, worn to ordinariness by the slow-motion tragedy of life.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, All the Crooked Saints

“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it's this fixed state we're going to reach. Like we'll be able to live there, forever. But that's not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― Percival Everett, James