Emily Mayo > Emily's Quotes

“The only way Addie knows how to keep going is to keep going forward. They are Orpheus, she is Eurydice, and every time they turn back, she is ruined.”
― V.E. Schwab

“It is easier to be in love in a room with closed doors. To have the whole world in one room. In one person. The universe condensed and intensified and burning, bright and alive and electric. But doors cannot stay closed forever.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Just go on dancing with me like this forever, Garraty, and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“The old world was changed utterly, dying on its feet, and a new one was struggling to be born.”
― Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

“We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“We never saw beyond New York save in books and never sat in an airplane holding each other's hand to ascend into a new sky and descend onto a new Earth. Yet Robert and I had explored the frontier of our work and created space for each other.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how impersonal and grasping our love was, pinging around the universe, hoping for a host to give form to our wishes.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“One of my fantasy dimensions is: Strangers on the street see me and think I might be French”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

“Well, isn’t this all part of life. Birth and sex and porn. Exciting and horrible and great and disgusting and joyful.”
― Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

“Our lives were passed on to us empty and our task was to make up being happy.”
― Richard Ford, Canada

“And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“It was the fact that the world and the story ends, and the way that it ends and is reborn, that made the gods and the frost giants and the rest of them tragic heroes, tragic villains. Ragnarok made the Norse world linger for me, seem strangely present and current, while other, better-documented systems of belief felt as if they were part of the past, old things.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Vol. 1

“Every woman is a girl who fell from grace, a monster who once was human.”
― Jude Ellison Doyle

“She could see her own future as clearly as she saw everything else. Its brevity was her one consolation.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“You’re twenty-one, said Melissa. You should be disastrously unhappy.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“I want to meet you in every place I have loved.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Midnight Library is not one of ghosts. It is not a library of corpses. It is a library of possibility.
And death is the opposite of possibility.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Really, there was nothing more dangerous than a woman who knew her own worth.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“[They] fall asleep like that, legs intertwined, underneath a found blanket, in the center of a war.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

“I am in love, it seems, with what cannot be”
― Euripides, Herakles

“How far would Benedikt go to find perfection? The brushstrokes? The particles? The atoms? If a true circle didn’t exist in their very universe, how was he supposed to paint one?”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“Dear Celestial, I am innocent.' 'Dear Roy, I am innocent, too.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“Being feminine apparently meant taking an eternity to do anything,”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

“I was so swept up in our beautiful experiment in freedom, I couldn’t see his pain.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

“I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.”
― Nikita Gill

“My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn’t be given, wouldn’t be taken, but chose my man and my fate.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia