“Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.”
— André-Marie Ampère
Welcome, everyone!
The year is almost over but there’s still just enough time to check out some of the great quotes I’ve come across this last half of 2022.
Like most readers, I adore a good quote.. and so I collect them.
From movies, books, people—I love when words so perfectly express what you yourself have thought, felt, or experienced but couldn’t voice. It gives you a sense that you’re not alone. Sometimes they’re just entertaining and it’s laughter that soothers you..
The right words, in the right moment, can be magic.
So, I’ll be sharing some of my favorites, and hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
Happy Reading!
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“All stories are keys to a truth. Sometimes a truth about the world. Sometimes a truth about love or fear. Sometimes, even, a truth about a lie. But all keys, all truths.”
The Clackity by Lora Senf
“I need your help. Because our world is in a precarious state. There is an ever-widening sinkhole of mediocrity trying to consume us all and we need to find higher ground”
Acts of Violet by Margarita Montimore
“Some adventures are cruel, because it is the only way they know how to be kind.”
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
“I had been trying to fit my world into a small, safe box for so long. But life didn’t work like that. It could move in and out of the lines. You couldn’t control everything, because it wasn’t all meant to be perfect. Sometimes things needed to be messy.”
My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
“You pretend you’re in control, that you’ve put behind you the helplessness you endured in childhood. Then shit happens, and you come to a moment like this, unable to avoid facing the truth that your control over your life is limited.”
The Big Dark Sky by Dean Koontz
“Everything’s so bizarre. A party of five are about to trot to the loo together, for fear of being bumped off one by one by an invisible killer stalking a Gothic hotel on an island in the middle of nowhere. You couldn’t make it up.”
The Island House by Amanda Brittany
“Her glance drifted from the house back to him. “Is it haunted?”
Good question. “Probably.”
All My Darkest Impulses by Lisa Unger
“What do you usually do in a situation like this?”
“I usually charge forward, like a bull in a china shop, until one of my horns sticks into something solid.”
What She Found by Robert Dugoni
“What I’m trying to tell you is:
don’t aspire to be fearless. aspire to be brave.”
The Gravity Inside Us: Poetry and Prose by Chloe Frayne
“She closed her eyes again. Opened them. It was no use. She was stuck in reality, and she was going to have to deal with it.”
The Hike by Susi Holliday
“It was invisible, but he felt it, a tiny swirling galaxy of potential. It drew him in like a promise. A secret.”
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology by Dhonielle Clayton
“Things will stop unraveling when I am myself again.”
Leech by Hiron Ennes
“We were the same, he and I. Gifted with ancient, terrible magic. Woven in secret, hidden in half-truths.”
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
“It was all too easy to take something for granted, even something beautiful, when you lived with it every day, she thought. The extraordinary faded into ordinary, even mundane”
The Stroke of Winter by Wendy Webb
“I feel like the rug’s been ripped out from beneath me, that everything I believed in is a lie, and I’m freefalling toward a truth I don’t want to see.”
The Resemblance by Lauren Nossett
“It had been nice to pretend. To imagine I could exist without everything bad in my life coming to the surface.”
One of Those Faces by Elle Grawl
“I think good looks are often conflicted with goodness and ugliness mistook for cruelty.”
The Neighbour’s Cat by J.S Ellis
“I can’t seem to get in the Christmas spirit, which is weird because it’s literally everywhere.”
The Girl Who Ruined Christmas by Cindy Callaghan
“People get hung up on happiness and joy, but fun will take you at least as far and it’s generally cheaper to obtain.”
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
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Stay safe and have a wonderful New Year!
Do you enjoy quotes?
What is one of your favorites?
