“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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“The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.”
― Lisa See, quote from Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, falling in love, war, the discoveries people made about each other. The only thing that didn't bore me, obviously enough, was how much money Tim Price made, and yet in its obviousness it did. There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and, possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being - flesh, blood, skin, hair - but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that the normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning. Something horrible was happening and yet I couldn't figure out why - I couldn't put my finger on it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, quote from American Psycho
“sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Infinite Jest
“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
― Stephanie Perkins, quote from Anna and the French Kiss
“I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society."
"Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.”
― Emmuska Orczy, quote from The Scarlet Pimpernel
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