Phoenix > Phoenix's Quotes

“So I'm a single man in my thirties, who lives alone in a small apartment, I don't have any kids, but I like kids a lot. I don't like where this is going...
A teacher! I'm a schoolteacher! I remember it now!
Oh, thank God. I'm a teacher.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“You can try your hardest to change something - exhaust every possibility- and sometimes it's still not enough.
But almost means you were there. You did all you could.
In the end, it's the smallest decisions that matter the most.
The seemingly insignificant choices we make every day-
To be honest with the people we love and ourselves-
To let go of the things we can't control, and appreciate the things we can.
Sometimes it's hard to see how much these things mean.
But they add up.
They mean everything.”
― Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers. If you could keep someone looking at your knight, you could take them with a pawn. Look past the details. Past the complications.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“Pip wished she was strong enough, but she’d learned that she wasn’t invincible; she too could break.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“Maybe it’s not how something ends that matters. Maybe it’s about having something good, even for a little while.”
― Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

“Nothing good in life comes easy, but it’s about deciding each day that you will stick with it.”
― Justin A. Reynolds, Opposite of Always

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You know how the saying goes. Act like a dick, lose said dick.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“If I had a heart to give, it would be all yours. Free of cost.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“To the girls who dream of meeting a prince
but end up falling for the misunderstood villain.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“It’s like she shits sprinkles and consumes rainbows for sustenance.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“I laid on the fake tears and he broke down quicker than a McDonald’s ice cream machine.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“You’ll learn that the best rewards come with the biggest consequences. Because nothing that great is given for free.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“You like me," I blurt out.

"No. I tolerate you more than most people. That's why I want to date you,”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“You better have a massive dick to back up that attitude or else people will be mighty disappointed.”  “Care to bring out a ruler and test your theory?”  “I left my magnifying glass at home, so maybe tomorrow.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“Bloom even when the sun doesn't shine.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“My little knights, Love with all your heart and show kindness in all your actions.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“A kiss for a secret.”  “I’ve never heard of this game.” I smirk.  “That’s because it’s exclusively ours.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“Go be absolutely, positively, fucking angelic.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces