“There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“Home is where you can be yourself.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be.
They show you yourself after all.
Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“When you do what you want, not what you wish...' said the first raven.
'When you no longer seek your reflection in others' eyes...' said the second.
'When you see yourselves face to face...' said the third.
'Then,' the ravens intoned in unison, 'you will have found what you truly seek.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“So thirsty," Jack groaned.
"So worried,"said the frog. I hope we don't starve to death."
"Yes,"said Jill, "not starving to death would be nice."
"So would not thirsting to death," said Jack
"Thirsting isn't even a word," said Jill
"It isn't?"
"No."
"Then what's the word?"
"I dont know. You just can't."
"Oh."
This is, of course, the kind of inane conversation that occurs when people are slowly losing their minds.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“When you are very pretty, people tend to remark on your looks. They smile at you more easily. They are more permissive of your faults. Soon, you come to believe that your prettiness matters, and that you are better because you are pretty, and that all it takes to get through life is a batting of your eyelashes and a twisting of your hair around your little finger, and that you can scream and pout and shout and tease because everyone will still like you anyway because you are so unbelievably pretty. This is what many very pretty people think.
Beware, then, for this is how monsters are made.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“They were amazing, fierce, beautiful children.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“She looked up, over the bandage that was nestled under her chin, and saw that the big-belly man with the red beard was starting at her, shaking his head. He looked like he was crying.
"I got ya this time," he whispered, as if to himself. "This time, I got ya.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“But beware...For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world—and returning to the place you once fled.”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
“Second of all, those fairy tales that you hear over and over and over again aren't even the REAL fairy tales. Has your teacher ever said to you, "Today, children, we're going to read a Cinderella story where the stepsisters cut off their toes and their heels with a butcher's knife! And then they get their eyes pecked out by birds! Ready? Is everyone sitting crisscross-applesauce?”
― Adam Gidwitz, quote from In a Glass Grimmly
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“She’d built her life around not having to wait for anyone or anything.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Edgedancer
“Müntzer, like all utopianists, was divorced from reality and wished to be so divorced, thinking the reality of this world as something to be fled as soon as possible. All political and religious reform movements are tempted in the direction of cultishness and violence, and at the time of Luther, Müntzer was the one who led this charge over the cliff.”
― Eric Metaxas, quote from Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
“But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten.”
― Nalini Singh, quote from Silver Silence
“I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to come to terms with myself and to find my own way, and like most well-brought-up children, I managed it badly.
Everyone goes through this crisis. For the average person this is the point when the demands of his own life come into the sharpest conflict with his environment, when the way forward has to be sought with the bitterest means at his command. Many people experience the dying and rebirth - which is our fate - only this once during their entire life. Their childhood becomes hollow and gradually collapses, everything they love abandons them and they suddenly feel surrounded by the loneliness and mortal cold of the universe. Very many are caught forever in this impasse, and for the rest of their lives cling painfully to an irrevocable past, the dream of the lost paradise - which is the worst and most ruthless of dreams.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Demian
“It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and a bit baffled, like an unintelligent sheep that's taken a wrong turn. But when he put them on again, they went all sharp and steely, more like the eyes of an eagle that eats dumb sheep for breakfast.”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe
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