Shannon > Shannon's Quotes

“Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”
― Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

“I chipped his sacred religious item into long splinters using a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. I figure if there's a God, He won't mind, considering the situation I'm in. If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.”
― Andy Weir

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“If you don't say the honest thing, it never becomes true.”
― John Green

“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― J.K. Rowling

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up.”
― Daniel Handler, Adverbs

“An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.”
― Gillian Flynn, Rogues

“I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.”
― Lisa Tuttle

“Or this: every day they woke in the same place, her husband waking her up with a cup of coffee, the cream still swirling into the black. Almost unremarked upon, this kindness. He would kiss her on the crown of her head before leaving, and she’d feel something in her rising through her body to meet him. These silent intimacies made their marriage, not the ceremonies or parties or opening nights or occasions or spectacular fucks.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go.”
― David Mitchell, Slade House

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Once you started eating shit, it had a way of becoming your regular diet.”
― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

“He thought one of the universal truths of life was that, sooner or later, someone always paid.”
― Stephen King, UR

“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool.”
― John Green

“There's nothing scarier than loving someone”
― Emily Henry, The Love That Split the World

“Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.”
― Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.”
― Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high: purpose, maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use. It was no big deal; it didn't go all at once, with a bang. And maybe, Richie thought, that's the scary part. How you didn't stop being a kid all at once, with a big explosive bang, like one of that clown's trick balloons. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air of a tire.”
― Stephen King, It

“Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.”
― Gilly Macmillan, Odd Child Out

“You always know your child, even when your child doesn't know you.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Here’s a thing I believe about people my age: we are the children of Hogwarts, and more than anything, we just want to be sorted.”
― Robin Sloan, Sourdough

“That is what abuse is:
knowing you are
going to get salt
but still hoping for sugar
for nineteen years.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
― The Nightvale Podcast

“Sometimes it's okay to find something beautiful without correctly understanding it.”
― Joseph Fink, It Devours!