Isabel Lopes > Isabel's Quotes

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“I need a chapter break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would not be weak, or helpless again
I would not, could not be broken. Tamed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Taking credit for what a child did well also meant accepting responsibility for what they did wrong.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. —CHINESE PROVERB”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“I used to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they were staring at. I wanted to
know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I
couldn’t tell. I mean, I was just me.
Then one day, when I looked in the mirror, I understood. I looked into my own eyes and I hated
myself, maybe as much as all of them did.
That was the day I started to believe they might be right.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Good men can make terrible kings,” Tindwyl noted. “But bad men cannot make good kings,”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Elend: I kind of lost track of time…
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Daylight War

“You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Daylight War

“I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Daylight War

“An act practiced in private will eventually be seen”
― peter v. brett, The Daylight War