Life Quotes

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

Libba Bray

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Veronica Roth

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

Veronica Roth

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

Veronica Roth

You seek havoc, but all you’ll end up finding is despair.

Jaimie Roberts

Here is the story of how I died. I wish it were a glamorous story; sadly, there was little glamour in my death. The end for everyone is much the same, sad, lonely, and cold. Only, most people don’t wake up again, I did. And I was hungry, so bloody ...

L.A. Kennedy

… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.

Hermann Broch

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Alice Hoffman

I just want to die knowing that I’ve made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.

Eloise Dyson

Many large corporations are actually modeled on hell,' Brother Frank added. 'The policies and organization are almost idential. Hell, of course, is much worse.

Maureen Johnson

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

Anais Nin

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Alice Hoffman

Despair is something horribly simple.

Christopher Isherwood

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

Alice Hoffman

It’s funny. From up here, the destruction seems to fade. Almost as if like people, in time, even the world can heal itself.

Eloise Dyson

Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand t...

Alice Hoffman

The Doctor: I just don’t like nastiness, and people getting away with it. Churchwell: That sounds a rather, if you forgive me, innocent view. The Doctor: That’s as may be, but I’m sticking to it.

Paul Magrs

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Alice Hoffman

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

Alice Hoffman

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

Libba Bray

Wenn du mit einem Schweden um die Wette saufen willst, solltest du zumindest Finne oder Russe sein. (S. 148)

Jonas Jonasson