...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

seribulan

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

bianglala

I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.”

ROBIN LAFEVERS, MORTAL HEART

bianglala

“She was a vessel built to hold the pain of her history, but it had cracked her, and radiant darkness leaked out through the crack.”

MICHAEL CHABON, MOONGLOW

bianglala

“Some things you can never leave behind.
They don’t belong to the past.
They belong to you.”

RICK YANCEY, THE FIFTH WAVE

bianglala

“The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy that land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.”

NAOMI ALDERMAN, THE POWER

bianglala

“How do you not like the Internet? That’s like saying, ‘I don’t like things that are convenient. And easy. I don’t like having access to all of mankind’s recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don’t like light. And knowledge.”

RAINBOW ROWELL, FANGIRL

bianglala

“I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.”

KATHERINE APPLEGATE, THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN

bianglala

“I empty myself with light
Until I become morning.”

CHARLES WRIGHT, LITTLEFOOT

bianglala

“I get it now. I get it. The things that you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.”

JOHN GREEN, WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON

bianglala

“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”

LOUISE ERDRICH, THE BINGO PALACE

bianglala

“Under the idea that we can all make our own fates, that we have choices, is the reminder that sometimes we don’t. That sometimes life is bigger than our plans. Bigger than us.”

ELIZABETH SCOTT, HEARTBREAK

seribulan

"Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one."

Before I Die, Jenny Downham

bianglala

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”

SUZANNE COLLINS, CATCHING FIRE

bianglala

“I know there is a terrible distance between us. But our bodies are made of stardust, and we are hurtling through space and time, toward the most beautiful collision.”

LANG LEAV, THE UNIVERSE OF US

bianglala

“What if the puzzle of the world was a shape you didn’t fit into? And the only way to survive was to mutilate yourself, carve away your corners, sand yourself down, modify yourself to fit? How come we haven’t been able to change the puzzle instead?”

JODI PICOULT, SMALL GREAT THINGS

bianglala

“When we share our struggles we let others know it’s okay to share theirs. And suddenly we realize that the things we were ashamed of are the same things everyone deals with at one time or another. We are so much less alone than we think.”

JENNY LAWSON, FURIOUSLY HAPPY

bianglala

“Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

JO WALTON, AMONG OTHERS

bianglala

“I’m trying to be a better person and I’m pretty sure that even when I die, I won’t be done with that.”

SARA BENINCASA, REAL ARTISTS HAVE DAY JOBS

bianglala

Why can so many of us only express our true feelings onto a blank slate: a diary page, the sky, an unconscious loved one, a tombstone?”

TIG NOTARO, I’M JUST A PERSON

bianglala

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN, THE SHADOW OF THE WIND