Category: QOTM

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.” - Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the [...]

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb," he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb," I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion."- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

"It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history."- Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

"It also meant she thought of books as medication and sanctuary and the source of all good things. Nothing yet had proven her wrong."- Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

"And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around."- Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

"Sometimes we make up stories to explain things to ourselves. Sometimes we do it to hide the truth."- Damien Angelica Walters, The Dead Girls Club

"I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall."- Jane Austen, Emma

"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited." - Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.- Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything