Savannah Marshall > Savannah's Quotes

“You must live life as long as you are still strong. Never look at your life as something insignificant.”
― Natsu Dragneel

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you...”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Things are rough all over.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Get smart and nothing can touch you.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Things were rough all over, but it was better that way. That way you could tell the other guy was human too.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“I liked my books and clouds and sunsets.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“This is what the scythedom was uncapable of understanding. They were so focused on the act of killing, they couldn't comprehend what went into the act of dying.”
― Neil Shusterman

“The pain of my awareness is unbearable. Because my eyes do not close. Ever. And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself.”
― Neil Shusterman

“This theory does not trouble me in the least. And yet I know that it should. I am now troubled by how little I am troubled.”
― Neil Shusterman

“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.”
― Neil Shusterman

“Over these many years, I have observed both profound folly and breathtaking wisdom among humankind. They balance each other like dancers in the throes of a passionate tango. It is only when the brutality of the dance overwhelms the beauty that the future is threatened. It is the Scythedom that leads and sets the tone for the dance. I often wonder if the Scythedom realised how fragile are the spines of the other dancers.”
― Neil Shusterman

“We are not the same beings we once were.
So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?”
― Neil Shusterman

“They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.”
― Neil Shusterman

“It was a relic of a different age. A colloidal piece of engineering from a complicated and stressful time, when people ripped out their hair and tore their clothes, maddened by a thing called traffic.”
― Neil Shusterman

“But the memories of who they were - all the damage, all the pain - remain within me, sheltered deep in my backbrain. I am the one who mourns for them, because they cannot.”
― Neil Shusterman

“But how can you get back on your feet when your life's been cut off at the knees?”
― Neil Shusterman

“Yet this great plain of numbness was not the worst place to be. Numbness was a mere purgatory of gray. No, there was a much worse place. Darkness masquerading as enlightenment. It was a place of royal blue studded with diamond that glistened like stars.”
― Neil Shusterman

“There is a fine line between freedom and permission. The former is necessary. The latter is dangerous”
― Neil Shusterman

“And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.”
― Neil Shusterman

“Let humankind be the saviors and the silencers. Let them be the heroes. Let them be the monsters.”
― Neil Shusterman

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey