Alex Jae > Alex's Quotes

“I didn’t gouge them out, Butcher. I plucked them. Delicately. Like a lady.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I would kill for you, and I have. I would do it again, every damn day. I’d turn myself inside out for you. I would die for you. I don’t just like you, Sloane, and you fucking know it.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“Boobs plus murder don’t equal a relationship, Lark. That math ain’t mathin’.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“I like it so much better when nobody expects anything from me and then I surprise them by delivering anything at all."
"That bar’s so low you’re gonna stub your toe on it.”
― Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

“Don’t find yourself regretting this. You’re much too young to haunt your own life.”
― Emily M. Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines

“What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“We all use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
― John Green

“How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
― John Green

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think we are invincible because we are.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”
― John Green Looking for Alaska

“What happens to us after we die, for instance, is no longer a question of idle philosophical interest.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“And how to live in the shadow of grief is not something nameless, Buddhists, Christians and Muslims have to explore.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I didn’t even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can’t remember, because I never knew.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you’re really a violent little thing, aren’t you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Oh, gods.”
“Which one are you calling out for? Because it’s just you and me in this room, Vi, and I don’t share.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I will not die today.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“It’s been. My honor.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I am annoyingly aware of everything you do.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“You turned oranges into a weapon, Violence?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“And strength of courage is more important than physical strength.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“You look all frail and breakable, but you're really a violent little thing, aren't you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“We can live as cowards or die as riders.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“And not all strength is physical, Violet.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing