“Each soul, each person, has to find their own way - learn their own lessons ... It's all those rough bits that make us stronger.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“There are only two emotions, love and fear. Love and fear is all there is--everything else is just an offshoot, motivated by those two.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Appearances are really just manifestations of how we see ourselves. And so, with that in mind, the way you see yourself, well, it has a direct effect on what you become, and how others see you.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“He rambled.
Oh boy, did he ramble.
He rambled in a way that was nothing but
a bunch of bippidy blah blah to my ears.
Rambled in a way that made my head go
all dizzy and squeezy.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Free will is a powerful thing. Sometimes it's the only way to realize your true destiny.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“dreamweaves were doing more harm than good. They were endangering people, making them believe in a false sense of security. Resulting in a population of delusional people, running around, taking unnecessary risks. And I think we all know that nothing good comes of that!”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Love and fear. Love and fear is all there is—everything else is just an offshoot, motivated by those two.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Can I come back tomorrow? And if so, do I get to go first?”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“seen my grandfather, who’d always seemed so old and serious in all of his photos, whooping and hollering as he surfed a fifty-foot wave.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Heya, newbie!” Newbie? I squinted. Not quite sure how to take that.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Dreamland
“Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
“I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“But here’s the problem you’re not addressing. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlú, however they’ve come by the evidence, this is the correct decision.”
― China Miéville, quote from The City & the City
“Stalin gothic was not so much an architectural style as a form of worship. Elements of Greek, French, Chinese and Italian masterpieces had been thrown into the barbarian wagon and carted to Moscow and the Master Builder Himself, who had piled them one on the other into the cement towers and blazing torches of His rule, monstrous skyscrapers of ominous windows, mysterious crenellations and dizzying towers that led to the clouds, and yet still more rising spires surmounted by ruby stars that at night glowed like His eyes. After His death, His creations were more embarrassment than menace, too big for burial with Him, so they stood, one to each part of town, great brooding, semi-Oriental temples, not exorcised but used.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, quote from Gorky Park
“Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from The Gods Themselves
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