Random Quotes

Chapter 7

*Susanna Kearsley- Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them, he said ' As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

*Sarah Dessen- What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it.

*Robin Sloan- Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines – it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

*Brandon Sanderson- But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

*Nelson Mendela- No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

*Somewhere, someone knows the words to the songs you sing.

*Marcia Muller- Sometimes the dead must bear the burden of a lie; sometimes the truth must be warped in favor of the living.

*Amie Kaufman- We see them as they cannot, will not, see each other–we see his heart in the way he looks at her; we see her soul calling out for his every touch. It would be so easy if they could only see inside each other as we can.

*And yet, there is beauty in the way they find each other: slowly, in a fragile dance of sidelong glances and accidental touches. To see them come together, souls binding without knowing each other as we do, without being certain of what the other's heart holds, is to learn something new. -Faith.