M L > M's Quotes

“She’s having a hard time right now because you’re not what she expected. But we’re never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“I'm learning that it's good to think about what scares you. To bring it into the light. Even to hold it in your hands, if you can, and feel how it can't hurt you anymore. To think of it and say, 'I am not afraid.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have nothing keeping you attached to the ground?”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“February your grandmother!..”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - Carpe - hear it? – Carpe, Carpe Diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don’t deserve anything but loneliness because all I do is hurt people. It’s what I’m good at. I learned from the best.”
― Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

“But in my experience, I've learned that the things worth doing are what scare us the most.”
― Mason Deaver, The Feeling of Falling in Love

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“Everyone’s got something. Some people are just better actors than others.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“Because God didn't write the Bible. Men did, probably uneducated ones.”
― Jenny Hubbard, And We Stay

“If God made us in his image, then maybe we have a right to play God when we can't find Him anymore.”
― Jenny Hubbard, And We Stay

“making a decision isn't about knowing every potential consequence. It's about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that direction”
― Malinda Lo, Huntress

“All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.”
― Malinda Lo, Huntress

“People are always going to think something about you that isn't real. It doesn't matter what they think.”
― Malinda Lo, Adaptation

“Perhaps that was the most perverse part of this: the inside-outness of everything, as if denial would make it go away, when it only made the pain in her chest tighten, when it only made her emotions clearer.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“Now she was confused, as if she’d been reading a book that had several pages removed, but hadn’t realized the pages were gone until this moment.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club