Sharon > Sharon's Quotes

“I promise you nothing, stupid brave thing.”
― Christopher Buehlman, The Suicide Motor Club

“I hope that the epitaph of the human race when the world ends will be: Here perished a species which lived to tell stories.”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele

“It is a very terrible thing to be far smaller than one's rage.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Names did have a power, if they were used in the right way.”
― John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things

“Some ideas are dangerous.”
― Donna Woolfolk Cross, Pope Joan

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.”
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Cabal dimly recalled that the musical genius who'd decided to put on Necronomicon: The Musical had got everything he deserved: money, fame, and torn to pieces by an invisible monster.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer

“Horst…’ He lowered his voice, ashamed. ‘I’ve done things since then. Things you don’t know about.’ The confession almost choked him, but somehow he forced the words out. ‘I’ve done good things.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Brothers Cabal

“It is not everyone,' said Elinor, 'who has your passion for dead leaves.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski

“Geniuses don’t go mad,” he said. “That’s what people don’t understand. They get out so far out that the water is like glass and they can see for miles and see so much, and in ways people have never seen before.”
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts

“True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, The Fear Institute

“We had to keep explaining things, backtracking and filling gaps. We realised our own conversations had evolved into a kind of shorthand, a tidy, neat little minimalism. Covering the whole canvas in broad obvious brushstrokes for outsiders felt like a waste of sounds, time and effort. Speaking with footnotes.”
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Johannes Cabal disliked many things, despised fewer, loathed fewer still, and reserved true hatred for only a handful. Understanding how intense his personal definition of 'dislike' was, however, gives some impression of how hot his hatreds ran. This is a man who had, after all, shot men dead for making him faintly peeved.”
― Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her eyes water most tremendously, a cramp in the back of one knee, and the fact that her new ball gown was getting most awfully wrinkled.”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless

“Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“When I set out from the boy's attic window, my head was so full of competing plans and complex stratagems that I didn't look where I was going and flew straight into a chimney.

Something symbolic in that. It's what fake freedom does for you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand

“A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.”
― Gail Carriger, Soulless