“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
“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk”
― Chinua Achebe, quote from Things Fall Apart
“Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. He couldn't imagine why. Maybe they hadn't like the deep-tissue massage? Maybe they'd gotten bad manicures?”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Son of Neptune
“But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?'
Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.
'My son, my son,' said Aslan. 'I know. Grief is great.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Magician's Nephew
“That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― George Eliot, quote from Middlemarch
“She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward.
"Cather..."
Back up to his eyes.
"You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?”
― Rainbow Rowell, quote from Fangirl
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