Accurate Quotes

“But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don't want to do. And if I lose, I'm one step closer to ruining my entire life. And I never know whether I'm going to win or lose until the last second.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

“After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
― C.S. Lewis

“They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it. ”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. I think the Merryweather cheerleaders confuse me because I missed out on Sunday School. It has to be a miracle. There is no other explanation. How else could they sleep with the football team on Saturday night and be reincarnated as virginal goddesses on Monday?”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”
― Paul Tournier

“Vishous, son of the Bloodletter, was not the kind of male anyone addressed like that. Except, apparently, for Wrath. In this case, the Brother with the tattoos on his face and the perverted reputation and the hand of death did exactly what he was told. He shut the fuck up.
Which said volumes about Wrath. Did it not.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn

“Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving … We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins … We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers … We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”
― Courtney Martin

“I am too complex for anyone to ever make an accurate judgment on who I am.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Madoc makes a snorting sound, then turns to me. 'I am sure that Wren here wouldn't mind taking Lady Nore's castle and lands for herself.'

I shake my head at the absurdity of the statement.

He raises his brows. 'No? Still sitting at the table and waiting for permission to start eating?'

That's an uncomfortably accurate way of describing how I've lived my life.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“It is important that an accurate historical record is maintained.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a historian.”
― Steven Magee

“The President of the USA can engage in fraud with the world, but at some point in the future I am going to correct the historical record to be true and accurate.”
― Steven Magee

“As an American historian, I will be correcting the historical record for the dangerous DeSoto Solar Farm to be a true, accurate and complete history.”
― Steven Magee

“As a USA historian, it is my job to ensure the USA historical record is accurate in the areas I am knowledgeable in.”
― Steven Magee

“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.”
― Steven Magee

“His life was a suicide. He gave up his soul for fear, little by little, until there was nowhere left in the universe but hell.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

“My anxiety and desire for chocolate and revenge is kind of high right now.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She laughs a husky laugh, the sexy kind that only smokers or people with colds get to have.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Occasionally, the “eyeball” approach to measurement is both imprecise and truly problematic, though we might not know that until it’s too late.”
― Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS