Shazana > Shazana's Quotes

“I may not know where I fit in with my family, but I finally know where I fit in with myself.”
― Auriane Desombre, The Sister Split

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
― Meg Cabot

“But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't.

Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world”
― Meg Cabot, Forever Princess

“And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her”
― Meg Cabot, Forever Princess

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“You know who you can depend on in this school? This whole stupid world? Your very own self. And that’s about it.”
― Claire Swinarski, What Happened to Rachel Riley?

“I know everyone at school loves to share every second of their lives on Instagram, but eighth grade might be a whole lot easier if nobody were looking.”
― Claire Swinarski, What Happened to Rachel Riley?

“Success is not defined by what the people around you want. It is based on what you want for yourself.”
― Naya Rivera, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

“Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.”
― Naya Rivera

“I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Love

“High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life—those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in high school? High school is something everybody should be ready to lose.”
― Meg Cabot, Forever Princess

“I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.”
― Meg Cabot, Forever Princess

“Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered.

And that was only because he was laughing so hard.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess Mia

“I don't trust people who claim to like everyone, because, really, how is that possible? If that is true, then you must not have any standards. If you care about your life, then there are going to be certain people you don't want in it.”
― Naya Rivera, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

“I went into junior high feeling like a loser and a has-been. I didn't want to come home after school and watch TV. I wanted to be on TV.”
― Naya Rivera, Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables