Aqsa > Aqsa's Quotes

“You're still wearing it."
He couldn't help but say it. Laurent's wrist was heavy with gold, like the colour of his hair in the firelight.
"So are you."
"Tell me why."
"You know why," said Laurent.”
― C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising

“I'm not going to use the knife," said
Damen, "but if you're willing to put it in
my hand, you underestimate how much I
want to."
"No," said Laurent, "I know exactly what
it is to want to kill a man, and to wait.”
― S.U. Pacat, Captive Prince

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“So I am to sit here and feed you information,” Cardan says, leaning against a hickory tree. “And you’re to go charm royalty? That seems entirely backward.”
I fix him with a look. “I can be charming. I charmed you, didn’t I?”
He rolls his eyes. “Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“When someone dies, it doesn't just take them. It takes a piece of everyone who ever loved them and everyone they ever loved.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“Eldon, we all mess up. No one should measure their worth by how often they screw up. What matters most is how a person deals with the aftermath. How they grow and change.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“But reconciliation never came easy. Not with the things that mattered.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“Life is the hesitation between an exclamation mark and a question mark. After doubt there is a full stop.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Even if you choose to ignore the truth, the truth still changes you.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“When you have to save the one you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we’ll done for the ones we love.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“Women only like jerks.’ That’s the mantra of dudes who have made themselves undateable but aren’t willing to take the blame.”
― Victor LaValle, The Changeling

“When all you have left are fragments of broken pieces, use them to create something meaningful.”
― Terry a O'Neal

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a history of what never was and a play is a novel without narrative. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, since no one speaks in verse.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life. Music lulls us, the visual arts enliven us, the performing arts (such as dance and drama) entertain us.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“This is the thing about strong people: you can mostly be scared of them but sometimes the way they are makes you feel safe.”
― Elizabeth Berg, Joy School

“Oh, Sophie, help me. I think he might actually be one of the good ones.”
― Stella Newman, The Dish

“It’s the fact that in all this — sky, earth, world — there is never anything but myself!”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“There should be a word for this, the way it feels to steal something that’s already yours.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

“The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e

I kiss my way across the words.
Kissing away the devils.
Kissing away the pain.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

“It's not because I want to make out with her."
Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations, and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me."
"It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Did you see that dress?” "I saw the dress.” "Did you like it?” He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?” When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.” I smiled and fell asleep.”
― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”
― Rachel Caine, Glass Houses