Shaina Jerome > Shaina's Quotes

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“It may be your soul that I love, but I’m pretty keen on its vessel, too.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Everyone has scars, Tenley.
If we're lucky, they're only on the outside".”
― Helena Hunting, Clipped Wings

“Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a place where you’re nice and cozy.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“true beauty comes from inside a person. If you feel beautiful, then you’ll look beautiful to others no matter what’s on the surface.”
― Kelly Oram, Cinder & Ella

“The heat of the incinerator wrapped around Inej like a living thing, a desert dragon in his den, hiding from the ice, waiting for her. She knew her body’s limits, and she knew she had no more to give. She’d made a bad wager. It was as simple as that. The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was when it would fall.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I'm crying for the little girl whose mother divorced her father, the girl who wanted to fall in love for the first time but wasn't ready for sex, the girl who dated a boy just because he wasn't the first one, the girl who fell hard for the guy with the easy smile and the green eyes, the girl who needed to prove she could hook up on a class trip, the girl who rand for student council just to impress a guy, the girl who lost her best friend, the girl whose father doesn't care anymore, the girl who doesn't have the money for college, the girl who just wants her grandma to fix everything, the girl who doesn't talk to anyone about anything, the girl who just can't fall in love again - even if a sweet guy folds a thousand paper cranes. Just for her.”
― Sydney Salter, Swoon at Your Own Risk

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.”
― Sasha Alsberg a

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“A great character needs trials to overcome—experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong. The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you’re the heroine.”
― Kelly Oram, Cinder & Ella

“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”
― Andrew Harvey, The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions

“I remember the one thing I have always known all along. I am not my mother’s daughter. I do not run from fear, but dive into it headfirst, the way my father taught me.”
― Lindsay Cummings, The Murder Complex

“I’m not chasing after some chick I want to fuck. I’m chasing after a woman I love who isn’t letting me in.”
― Nashoda Rose, Torn from You

“I hate feeling like I don't belong.”
― Erin Watt, Paper Princess

“Don't call yourself discouraged anymore;it's no longer your name.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“Ella, wherever you are, if you’re out there listening, I love you. You are my entire world. You’ve always said you thought Cinder was a coward for doing what the people expected of him instead of following his heart. Well, I’m not a coward. This Prince Cinder chooses his Ellamara. I choose you, Ella, and I’m not going to let you be a coward, either. I’m not going to let my fame scare you away. We’re Cinder and Ella, woman! We’re supposed to get our fairy-tale ending!”
― Kelly Oram, Cinder & Ella

“Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.”
― Sarra Manning, Adorkable

“If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to be her friend.”
― Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman

“Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Misconduct

“Value is an odd thing, subject to whim.  What one might find value in, another might not; what has value today might not have value tomorrow, depending on the wants and needs of the evaluating individual.”
― M.J. Haag, Depravity

“Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“That was the deal with the really good-looking boys: they automatically assumed you were pining and panting for them and wouldn’t be satisfied until you’d had their babies, no matter how ugly their personalities might be.”
― Sarra Manning, Adorkable

“When will being independent and strong and not following the pack and daring to be different and being brave in my opinions, my fashion choices and my hair colour be enough?”
― Sarra Manning, Adorkable

“There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”
― Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge