Quote by Jo Walton Download Open image ““I couldn’t be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.”” — Jo Walton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that… — Delphine de Vigan Copy Share Image
“I could feel myself shrinking. I couldn't move, not even to blink or breathe. Soon I'd be nothing at all.” — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
“No matter what you have, or how lucky you think you are, there’s nothing in this world you can hold on to so tightly… — Adam Sternbergh Copy Share Image
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“You'll always be a fat girl. You don't know how to be anything else.” — Sarra Manning Copy Share Image
“And yet can it be that I was fit for nothing, that for me there was, as it were, no work on earth to… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“You can fit in or you can change the world but you can't do both.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“If I kept looking hard enough maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.” — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“That's what I really want - to shed all the people who want to form and shape me, one by one, and learn instead… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
