Maria > Maria's Quotes

“Where her books were, she was. Get the books right and the rest will follow. Now she could address the rest of the room.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious

“That's the thing about risks," Kye says. " It's impossible to know which ones are worth it until it's too late.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“All the money, all the power—none of it compares to a good book. A book gives you everything. It gives you a window into other souls, other worlds. The world is a door. Books are the key.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“You can't win a war. Someone else just loses.”
― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom

“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre