“I didn't used to be like this. I didn't believe in love and romance and swooning. My default setting was bitch”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“This is the second fucking time I've gotten shot when I was with you. I don't think we can be friends anymore.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Everything that tried to stand between us doesn't matter.
We might have broken a little.
But now we're stronger in those broken places.
And we're going to face whatever comes next together.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“I was here.
I lived.
I mattered.
This is a good way to go.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“This is epic monument-style shit we're in.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Even though I wasn't there, you were always with me. Always.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“I thought we had the kind of love that could do anything.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“You suck at working with someone," I say, because it's true.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Instead of responding to me, he shakes his head and walks out of the room. And because I’m me, I follow. We are not done with this conversation.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
“Giving up on something is like admitting you never wanted it in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Norris, quote from Unbreakable
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“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”
― Tennessee Williams, quote from A Streetcar Named Desire
“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”
― Rohinton Mistry, quote from A Fine Balance
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
― David Mitchell, quote from Cloud Atlas
“I is not understanding human beans at all,’ the BFG said. ‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’ ‘Right,’ Sophie said. ‘But human beans is squishing each other all the time,’ the BFG said. ‘They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other’s heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.’ He was right. Of course he was right and Sophie knew it. She was beginning to wonder whether humans were actually any better than giants.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The BFG
“Who are you?" the woman said at last.
"Lyra Silver—"
"No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this?" Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.”
― Philip Pullman, quote from The Subtle Knife
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