“The moment you think you're on top is the moment you've lost your passion.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“The Sugar Plum Fairy has the farthest to fall.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“Don't carry worries around," she always says. "They're heavy.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“My heart is flailing, thumping in my chest like a bird caught in a cage, wanting to be wild again.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“Because I’m black?” I straight out ask, hating that being different can be a code word for being black, for something that isn’t white. “No”—he”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“I don't care about being happy. Only about being the best.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“When you go against fate, the result can be dangerous.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“You can't trust anyone - I learned that the hard way.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“This is crazy. Only psychopaths do this. This is some serial killer–type stuff.”
― Sona Charaipotra, quote from Tiny Pretty Things
“The ministerial students were the worst—they were maybe one-third to one-half of each class, and this was their trade school. They came to learn the right words, all the proper formulae ... which they wrote down and memorized from the lectures of their profs.”
― Richard Ben Cramer, quote from What It Takes: The Way to the White House
“The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice.”
― Cambria Hebert, quote from #Bae
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from Proces
“And you, Persephone... You were foretold, too. I never wanted anything-" her mouth moved softly, gently over my skin "-until I wanted you.”
― Sarah Diemer, quote from The Dark Wife
“I had grown up hearing the word terrorism, but I never really understood what it meant. Until now. Terrorism is different from war-where soldiers face one another in battle. Terrorism is fear all around you. It is going to sleep at night and not knowing what horrors the next day will bring.”
― Malala Yousafzai, quote from I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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