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Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1) QUOTES

Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1) QUOTES

1 " He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

2 " Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

3 " ...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

4 " As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

5 " On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

6 " He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

7 " It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

8 " Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

9 " Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other? "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

10 " It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

11 " If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

12 " I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

13 " He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

14 " What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books? "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

15 " He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

16 " It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

17 " And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

18 " Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

19 " What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?

And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice? "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)

20 " He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. "

― Laini Taylor , Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, #1)