“The first cut is always the deepest, but not every cut leaves a scar,”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“The dream came true,” Grandma said. “And it had nothing to do with us. After years and years of being inspired by other dreamers, that person made their own dream come true and probably inspired countless others to do the same. We wouldn’t want to want to live in a world where no one believed in themselves enough to make their own dreams come true.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“We all do our part,” Alex teased. “But if it's any consolation, Red's problems are a lot like weeds. No matter how many times you pull them, they just keep coming back.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“You gave goldilocks her first sword? That's like giving Shakespeare his first pen.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“You can look at a hundred pictures and a dozen maps, but unless you’ve been to the city and felt its pulse, you really”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“busts, carvings, engravings, and symbols of King Ludwig’s”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“Family Farms,” she declared. A hush fell over the room. Little Bo Peep was a very”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“Whenever Conner asked them for something he acted like a hyper Chihuahua.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“The Masked Man – it was Dad!”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“Do I have to dress up?”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“To know someone's deepest desires is to risk knowing them more than they want to be known.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“If you spend your whole life worrying about getting hurt, then you aren't really living. You don't want to shield yourself so much from the bad stuff that nothing good gets to you either.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“These days people act like love is an island, they all want to swim to it but no one wants to get wet.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“We have to take some things for granted every now and then, otherwise we would live life afraid of losing everything.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“All it takes is one bad apple to disgrace the whole tree.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“The taller you stand, the less weight you fell. Don't ever let anything break your spirit.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
“The first cut is always the deepest, but not every cut leaves a scar,” she said. “If you spend your whole life worrying about getting hurt, then you aren’t really living. You don’t want to shield yourself so much from the bad stuff that nothing good gets to you, either.”
― Chris Colfer, quote from A Grimm Warning
Chris Colfer
Born place: in Clovis, California, The United States
Born date May 27, 1990
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“Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?”
― Liane Moriarty, quote from The Last Anniversary
“Ever since I became an American, people have told me that America is about leaving your past behind. I’ve never understood that. You can no more leave behind your past than you can leave behind your skin.
The compulsion to delve into the past, to speak for the dead, to recover their stories: that’s part of who Evan was, and why I loved him. Just the same, my grandfather is part of who I am, and what he did, he did in the name of my mother and me and my children. I am responsible for his sins, in the same way that I take pride in inheriting the tradition of a great people, a people who, in my grandfather’s time, committed great evil.
In an extraordinary time, he faced extraordinary choices, and maybe some would say this means that we cannot judge him. But how can we really judge anyone except in the most extraordinary of circumstances? It’s easy to be civilized and display a patina of orderliness in calm times, but your true character only emerges in darkness and under great pressure: is it a diamond or merely a lump of the blackest coal?
Yet, my grandfather was not a monster. He was simply a man of ordinary moral courage whose capacity for great evil was revealed to his and my lasting shame. Labeling someone a monster implies that he is from another world, one which has nothing to do with us. It cuts off the bonds of affection and fear, assures us of our own superiority, but there’s nothing learned, nothing gained. It’s simple, but it’s cowardly. I know now that only by empathizing with a man like my grandfather can we understand the depth of the suffering he caused. There are no monsters. The monster is us.”
― Ken Liu, quote from The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Pitch tugged at Orias’s coat. “Don’t. Don’t do it.” Mactalde set his goblet on a nearby table and rose. The fire lit his face from the bottom up. “You’ve come so far on your quest to save your people. I don’t think you can abandon them now.” And the gut-wrenching truth was ... he couldn’t.”
― K.M. Weiland, quote from Dreamlander
“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
― quote from The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“Human hearts are like noble little ants, able to carry so much more weight than you'd expect.”
― Emery Lord, quote from The Names They Gave Us
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