Angie (mushmysteriesandmore) > Angie's Quotes

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!”
― Billy Connolly

“if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.”
― Johnny Depp

“People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips.”
― Billy Connolly, Coming Home: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country

“Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark.”
― Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

“People shouldn’t take on something to love and expect it to be convenient for them. You have to meet a living creature where they are, and love them for who they are, not who you want them to be.”
― Chloe Liese, Two Wrongs Make a Right

“I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I’m your monster, Evangeline.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“No matter what happens, I'm blessed beyond worth or measure to have heard your song and felt your love.”
― Megan Van Dyke, The Musician and the Monster: A gothic Beauty and the Beast retelling

“My heart only beats as long as yours does, and when you die, I’ll meet Malek at your side.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Even when you choose yourself, you turn hope into something tangible for the rest of us. Even when you choose not to fight, you turn the tide. If you ask me, that right there is the soul of a king.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“If you didn't figure it out, you weren't worthy of knowing." She huffs. "I waited six hundred and fifty years to hatch. Waited until your eighteenth summer, when I heard our elders talk of a weakling daughter of their general, the girl forecasted to become the head of the scribes, and I knew. You would have the mind of a scribe and the heart of a rider. You would be mine." She leans into my hand. "You are as unique as I am. We want the same things."
"You couldn't have known I would be a rider."
"And yet, here we are."
A thousand questions go through my head, none of which we have the time for, so I give her exactly what I wanted–to be seen for who and what she is.
"You are not a black dragon, or any of the six that we know of. You're a seventh breed."
"Yes." Her eyes widen in excitement.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame