Isabel > Isabel's Quotes

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“It darted through her, with the speed of an arrow, that Mr. Knightley must marry no one but herself!”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“She could fly around District 12 all she liked, but she and her mockingjays could never harm him again.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Well, as they said, it's not over until the mockingjay sings.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You're mine and I'm yours. It's written in the stars.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dialate again rapidly, and then return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.

"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They
are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration
these last twenty years at least.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. "Finnick!" And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible.
A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“It’s just the kind of story that catches fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Things never happen the same way twice.”
― C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the “Dawn Treader”

“They called you the Glue"
"The Glue?"
"Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“Great. We're all bloody inspired,” Newt answered, then pointed over his shoulder, towards the Maze.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“Fly you fools”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I love you like all-fire.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“The moment our hearts shattered? It belongs to us.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Dove color: Warm gray with a slight purplish or pinkish tint. Her color. Her bird. Her name.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“And while Lenore Dove will forever be my true love, Louella is my one and only sweetheart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Because the reaping’s going to happen no matter what I believe. Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“It’s okay to cry around Mags.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping