Illaeds Quotes & Sayings

The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered. — Umberto Eco

Outside, Melliphant's ear flattened itself against the wood of the door like a pale slug. — Philip Reeve

In life, more than in anything else, it isn't easy to end up alive. — Roman Payne

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins. — Bruce Feiler

No, It does. And if I left, you'd probably want to give me my jacket back. And if you did, I wouldn't be able to put it on, because the whole time I'd be knowing how perfectly it fit on you. How even though the sleeves are ridiculously too long and the collar is all fucked up and for all I know some guy named Salvatore is going to come in this very club and say, 'Hey, that's my jacket' and strike up a conversation and sweep you off your feet away from me- even though all those things are true or possibly true, I just can't ruin the image of you sitting there across from me wearing my jacket better than I, or anyone else could. If I don't owe it to you, and I don't owe it to me, I at least owe it Salvatore. — David Levithan

Sounds like a great place to get killed. Hard pass. — Jackson Lanzing

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work. — Alice Bag

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

In two weeks a man could completely refashion his history; he could walk all the way to Ohio or Iowa, change his name and his accent, disappear into another life. In the woods, footprints faded, the wind rose up to disperse of clothing, flesh became grass. — Alice Hoffman

Tell me if you want me to change anything out - move some of the lace, mayhap, or use less of it. Poor Mrs. Sandeston. She said those words the way a man scheduled to be hanged this afternoon might talk about the weather on the morrow - wistfully, as if the thought of less lace were a luxury, something that would be experienced only by an extraordinary and unlikely act of executive clemency. — Courtney Milan

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. — William Bennett

There is so much more to me than my parts and what I wear, what my clothes are. — Rachel Bloom