“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“If you look at the sky that way, it’s this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“You hold no horrors for me”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I {} you more than [[[{{{}}}]]].”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Yes, I’m a reader. Kill me. I could tell you I was raised in the library and the books were my only friends, but I didn’t do that, did I? Because I have mercy. I’m neither a genius nor a kid destined to become a wizard. I’m just me. I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we’re friendly. So there.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I don't think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Life and death aren’t as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn’t like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there’s a glass wall between.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind.
I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette ash.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“And there's the loudest sound I've ever heard and the brightest white I've ever seen, and I'm made of it, I'm-
I'm made of light
I'm made of heat
And I'm flying”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“My thing is a Mystery and not just a Mystery, but Bermuda--no sun, only Triangle. Unknowable. Unsolvable.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“You’ve never seen surprise until you’ve looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I need to get onto Aza’s ship. I know where it’s going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I’ve really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Some days I'm just sixteen, and sixteen isn't what I want to be.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“People, alas, don't document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“Side note: invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“I think of the note.
I want to say me too.
I want to say I know.
I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It’s my language too.
I want to say that.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
“The sound coming out of me is nothing like a cough, nothing even in the same category of a song, but some kind of bird of prey roar, shredding my throat, pulsating my fingers, and Milekt beneath it, singing inside my voice, amplifying me, and making me stronger.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, quote from Magonia
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“I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency.”
― Maya Banks, quote from Hidden Away
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.”
― Richard Dawkins, quote from Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
“Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: 'Let the thing be pressed.”
― Bill O'Reilly, quote from Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
“to feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves”
― Frida Kahlo, quote from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
“I wanted to own her past, her present, her future. I wanted to be her first and last and fucking forever. I wanted to wipe everything from her life where I wasn't the center point of her evolution.”
― Pepper Winters, quote from Quintessentially Q
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