“In my books, there is always a prince, and he always happens upon the damsel in the most unexpected places.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“Jealousy is a very stupid thing. It only leaves the bitterest taste behind-regret.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“You can only cry so much until your life is wept away.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“Perhaps music is a sort of magic.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“I do not know about magic, but words are powerful things indeed.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“I am creature of the night and dark corners.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“Father says I'm perfect, but would a prince agree if he knew what I was made of? Would he value me for the usefulness of my parts, or for the contents of my heart? Or would he only value me as a prize to slay the monsters in the story?”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
“I will never forget my first breath. Gasping. Heaving. Delicious.”
― MarcyKate Connolly, quote from Monstrous
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“Those who did remember probably shrugged off the chill of her memory, turned their heads down to the sports page or up toward the approaching bus. The world is a terrible place, they thought. Bad things happen every day. My bus is late.”
― Dennis Lehane, quote from Gone, Baby, Gone
“He sounded so tired and so earnest. I worried my lips between my teeth before asking, "Does this have anything to do with what you told me before?"
Tybalt blinked. Then he snorted a brief laugh, and asked, "October, in the years since your return ... has anything not been in some way related to what I told you before? You handed me a hope chest in a dark alley. You took my heart as collateral, and you've never returned it.”
― Seanan McGuire, quote from Ashes of Honor
“Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from De Profundis
“Hey, we were vandals, but we WEREN’T litterbugs!”
― Rachel Renée Russell, quote from Dork Diaries Book 5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All
“Svi mi svuda sa sobom nosimo neki Wolfsegg i imamo volju da ga sebi na spas izbrišemo, želimo ga uništiti tako da ga napišemo, izbrisati ga. Ali većinom nemamo snage za takvo brisanje. (...) Vjerijemo da s takvim naumom možemo početi, a to ipak nismo u stanju, sve je uvijek protiv nas i protiv takvog nauma i onda to uvijek odgađamo i nikad za to ne nađemo vremena, pa se tako mnogi radovi duha koji bi morali biti napisani ne napišu, ostane toliko zapisa koje cijelo vrijeme, godinama, desetljećima imamo u svojoj glavi, u svojoj glavi. Potežemo sve moguće razloge da s takvim radom ne počnemo, iskopavamo sve moguće igovore, zazivamo sve moguće duhove koji svi odreda mogu biti samo zli duhovi, samo da ne moramo početi, a baš bismo trebali početi. To je tragedija onoga koji hoće nešto napisati, to da uvijek izaziva ometače svoga pisanja.”
― Thomas Bernhard, quote from Extinction
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