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Elana K. Arnold QUOTES

Elana K. Arnold QUOTES

1 " We can believe things that are true, and we can believe things that are not true. Which is more important---what is true, or what we believe? "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

2 " It's not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy, and satiate. Our girls are both the platter and the meal, and we eat them up--we eat their meat, we lap up their sweetness, we covet and control and consume. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

3 " Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Burning

4 " You can't make people love you. Love isn't something you earn, or something you deserve. Love just is. Or it isn't. Anyway, there are more important things than love. Like service. Being of service. With love, you're waiting around for someone to give it to you. But service, that's something you give. And you don't have to give it just to people you love. It doesn't matter who you serve. It's the serving that matters. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

5 " I'll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There's just me and this one beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

6 " That's who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

7 " And that is the way it has always been," the queen mother said again. "And if something is the way it has always been, who are we to wish it otherwise? Who are we to want anything at all? Who are we to desire?"

"I desire," Ama said. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Damsel

8 " Without you," Ama said, "I would be free. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Damsel

9 " That is the way of being a woman, to carve away at herself, to fit herself to the task, but, also, to be able to carve herself in a different way, when a different shape is needed. "

― Elana K. Arnold

10 " As long as there have been women," Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

11 " I'm more than any of the parts of me—I am more than my good parts, and more than my bad ones. I am more than my mistakes. I am more than my memories. I will say these words again and again, like an anthem, like a prayer, until I believe them. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

12 " She was too much and not enough, both in the same instant. Too big and too small; too bright and too dull; too affectionate and not affectionate enough. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Damsel

13 " Maybe it was all right to let things be broken for awhile. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Burning

14 " I made you beautiful,” Emory said again, again. “You keep saying that,” Ama answered. “But I did not ask for your beauty. I made beauty all on my own. I did not need you then. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Damsel

15 " It’s not that we need more wolf hunters,” you say. “It’s that we need men to stop becoming wolves. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Red Hood

16 " I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to set things right. That works in stories, in children's fairy tales, but not in real life. Nothing everything can be fixed. And perhaps not everything should be. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Burning

17 " There is no such thing as unconditional love," my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any time. "

― Elana K. Arnold , What Girls Are Made Of

18 " At last Emory turned to leave, well pleased, and then a thought flashed through Ama’s mind, a realization that chilled her even more deeply than the rain –
This is how he likes me best… when I am in need of rescue. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Damsel

19 " Have you ever had the feeling that you aren't the main character in the story of your life? That you fill a more minor role- supporting cast, maybe, comic relief, or even antagonist. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Infandous

20 " Freshman year, you said yes to Graham when he asked you to be his date to a dance, even though you didn't want to. Mémé, who was driving you to the school to meet him, kept looking at you out of the corner of her eye, until at last she said, "Dear one, why did you agree to go out with this boy when you are so clearly unhappy about it?"

"Because," you said, "I felt sorry for him, and he wouldn't take no for an answer."

Mémé had pulled the car into the next parking lot and turned off the engine. She turned in her seat t face you. "Darling," she said, and her hazel eyes were electric, her mouth a straight flat line, "it is not your job to make boys happy. "

― Elana K. Arnold , Red Hood