Quotables @ Bookshelf

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“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”

JODI PICOULT, SECOND GLANCE

seribulan

“Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.”
—Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”


—Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

AlterEgo

“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.” Rising Strong by Brene Brown

seribulan

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
—Phrynette Married by Marthe Troly-Curtin

bianglala

“But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that’s what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.”

SARAH OCKLER, BITTERSWEET

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“Anything you don’t want to deal with can always be written off as being “in the past” and ignored, but in doing so, you sweep it under a rug where it doesn’t go away with time – it becomes time itself, and takes on the illusion of life as we think we know it.”

A.J. DARKHOLME, RISE OF THE MORNINGSTAR

bianglala

“Perhaps that’s what life is about–the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in order to explain it, or contain it. Simply in order to feel it. Because in that recognition of the sublime, we see for a moment the entire universe in the palm of our hand. And in that moment, we touch the face of God.”

GARTH STEIN, A SUDDEN LIGHT

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“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.”

BYRAN STEVENSON, JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION

bianglala

“The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.”

GARTH NIX, CLARIEL: THE LAST ABHORSEN

bianglala

“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really understand the condition if you’ve never found yourself in it?”

SHERRY D. FICKLIN, QUEEN OF SOMEDAY

bianglala

“No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.”

DIANE CHAMBERLAIN, THE SILENT SISTER

bianglala

“A good book is like a good friend. It will stay with you for the rest of your life. When you first get to know it, it will give you excitement and adventure, and years later it will provide you with comfort and familiarity. And best of all, you can share it with your children or your grandchildren or anyone you love enough to let into its secrets.”

CHARLIE LOVETT, FIRST IMPRESSIONS: A NOVEL OF OLD BOOKS, UNEXPECTED LOVE, AND JANE AUSTEN

bianglala

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”

ELEANOR CATTON, THE LUMINARIES

bianglala

“Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don’t know why people can’t do the same thing.”

MICHAEL GILBERT, PERFECTED SINFULNESS

bianglala

“Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?”

CECELIA AHERN, LOVE, ROSIE

bianglala

“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”

JAMES DASHNER, THE MAZE RUNNER

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“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal.”

GAYLE FORMAN, IF I STAY

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“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”

JANDY NELSON, I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN

bianglala

“People say that where there’s life, there’s hope, and I have no quarrel with that, but I also believe the reverse.
There is hope, therefore I live.”

STEPHEN KING, REVIVAL