💬 Quotes

"To change is to survive, but to remember is to remain whole."

"I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses. All of us."

"Everything is a story. You are a story. I am a story."

"Whatever comes, she said, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess if I behave like one."

"It is not so easy to be a princess when you are cold and hungry and tired, but it is then that you must try the hardest."

"Perhaps you have made a mistake in your calculations, Miss Minchin. I have not lost my goodness, even if I have lost my fortune."

"To be able to learn is a great thing; to be able to teach is a greater, but to be able to give comfort is the greatest of all."

"In every factory, in every shop, in every office, there are those who serve and those who are served. I am the one who is served, but I have chosen to serve you."

"There will be generations because of what you did."

"He had no more money. He had nothing left to trade. He had only his own vulnerability."

"You’re not supposed to be here, Luce. You’re not supposed to know me. Not yet."

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

"The feeling of being watched was almost as constant as the feeling of being lonely."

"I’ve died a thousand times for you, and I’ve watched you die a thousand times for me. I’m tired of it, Luce."

"I am your number one fan. There is nothing to worry about. You are going to be just fine."

"Writing is not a bull session. It's not a parlor game. It's a job for solitary people."

"It’s funny, isn't it? The way you can recover from a real accident, but never really recover from an imagined one."

"Life, which you had always naively assumed to be a free-flowing stream, was actually a series of frozen ruts."

"He who gets hurt the most, knows the most."

"I’m not a fan of yours anymore, Paul. I’m a fan of Misery. And you’ve killed her."