Favourite Books Quotes

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, but this he could not understand, he had used
the girl ruthlessly and yet she did not hate him.”
― Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

“There’s this word in Japanese: tsundoku,” Neil says suddenly.
“It’s my favorite word in any language.”
“What does it mean?”
He grins. “It means acquiring more books than you could ever
realistically read.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“Cindy, have you heard of the second law of thermodynamics?”
“Yes. Something about heat energy can never be created or destroyed?”
“That’s the first law of thermodynamics. The second one is this…all organized systems tend to slide slowly into chaos and disorder. Energy tends to run down. The universe itself heads inevitably towards darkness and stasis. Our own star system eventually will die, the sun will become a red giant, and the earth will be swallowed by the red giant.”
“Cheery thought.”
“But mathematics has altered this concept; rather one particular mathematician. His name was Ilya Prigogine, a Belgian mathematician.”
“Who and what does that have to do with your being a PI and a great psychologist?”
“Are you being sarcastic? Of course you are. Anyway, what I was trying to say was that Prigogine used the analogy of a walled city and open city. The walled city is isolated from its surroundings and will run down, decay, and die. The open city will have an exchange of materials and energy with its surroundings and will become larger and more complex; capable of dissipating energy even as it grows. So my point is, this analogy very much pertains to a certain female. The walled person versus the open person. The walled person will eventually decline, fade, and decay.”
― Behcet Kaya, Appellate Judge

“The love that I wanted so desperately: this isn’t what I thought
it would feel like. It’s made me dizzy and it’s grounded me. It’s
made me laugh when nothing is funny. It shimmers and it sparks,
but it can be comfortable, too, a sleepy smile and a soft touch and
a quiet, steady breath. Of course this boy—my rival, my alarm
clock, my unexpected ally—is at the center of it.
And somehow, it’s even better than I imagined.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“Neil McNair has become my alarm clock, if alarm clocks had
freckles and knew all your insecurities.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon , Today Tonight Tomorrow

“You wrote a fucking book. Do you know how many people
wish they could do that, or how many people talk about doing it
and never do?”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“He glances down at his arms. “I didn’t even realize—am I expos-ing too much skin? I don’t want to be parading myself in front of
you, taunting you with what you can’t have. I have a hoodie in my
backpack. I can put it on if you’re—”
“You’re definitely better. We’re leaving.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“And just so you know, we might be having dinner together,
but this isn’t a date,” Neil says, completely straight-faced. “I just
don’t want you to get too excited. I mean, your parents are going
to be there, so it would be really awkward if you were fawning over
me the whole time.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“I know you can do this. You’re the person who revolutionized
garbage collection at Westview, remember?”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon , Today Tonight Tomorrow

“I was the boy who killed his first man at eleven.

I was the teenager who crushed his cousin’s throat at seventeen.

I was the man who bathed in his enemies’ blood without a flicker of remorse, who relished in their screams as if it was a fucking Mozart sonata.

Monsters are created, not born.

Bullshit.

I was born a monster. Cruelty ran in my veins like poison. It ran in the veins of every Vitiello man, passed on from father to son, an endless spiral of monstrosity.

I was a born monster shaped into an even worse monster by my father’s blade and fists and harsh words.

I was raised to become Capo, to rule without mercy, to dish out brutality without a second thought.

I was raised to break others.

When Aria was given to me in marriage, everyone waited with baited breath to see how fast I’d break her like my father broke his women. How I’d crush her innocence and kindness with the force of my cruelty, with relentless brutality.

Breaking her would have taken little effort. It came naturally to me.

A man born a monster, raised to be a monster, bound to be a monster to become Capo.

I was gladly the monster everyone feared.

Until her. Until Aria.

With her, I didn’t have to cover up my darkness.

Her light shone brighter than my darkness ever could.

With her, I didn’t want to be the monster. I wanted to shield her from that part of my nature.

But I was born a monster. Raised to break others.

Not breaking her would come with a price.

A price a monster like myself shouldn’t risk paying.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture ... and may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal you in this world.”
― George Hamlin Fitch

“One part brave, three parts fool.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“Everyone ripens at their own speed.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“To some I seem crazy, that's ok. They seem crazy to me as well.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Strength, courage and fire to pursue the unknown.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or even control.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“It is not hard, it is not easy — IT IS.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“You are an adventure. An exhilaratingly wild one at that.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Whatever one can do by oneself, one must do it — for oneself.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“One must learn, simply, to be.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“You are strong, you can endure the toughest of winds because you are eager to meet yourself.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Many people have told me to stay away, they said it was too savage and wild — they had no idea that it was exactly what I needed — savage and wild.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Illuminated from within we radiate the surface as we are all the one — knowing that in the one is the all.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“Running amok, just like a phoenix you obtain this new life arising from the ashes of the old one.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“They are stuck in the past, while you, darling, forge the future.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“The way you have been treated was profoundly wrong, but all of it was testing your appetite to withstand, and that you did.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“We hurt ourselves much more than others can ever hurt us.”
― Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

“AITA for proposing to my girlfriend on a Toilet King Billboard?”
― Abby Jimenez

“When everyone knows you're a monster, you needn't waste time doing every monstrous thing”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows