Amelia Unabridged Quotes

Everything is silly, dear. Life is too brief to be anything else.

There's nothing in the world a good book can't cure

Everything is a story, not just writing. You need to find the story that means something to you, a story you like telling.

I like to imagine my used books as little soldiers that have gone off to serve their duty elsewhere before coming into my hands. Books are something to be stepped inside of, to be occupied and lived in.

Fate doesn't need to be believed in for it to be true.

I hate endings. Hate them. If the story is good, it’s never going to be long enough.

Reading, for me, has always been more like playing a video game than watching a movie, an active experience that used to leave me physically and emotionally wrought.

There is a moment between sleep and waking where anything can happen and it feels like a person might be wiped clean, their entire life rewritten almost by accident

Let me give you stories.

One of the things I love—loved—about books is that no matter how dreadful the characters’ plights or how insurmountable the conflicts, everything turns out for the best in the end. Not necessarily happily ever after, and maybe not happy at all, but necessary and true. If there was pain, it was to be for personal growth. If there was loss, it was so something better or more essential could be introduced.

I need to explain why I've changed my mine, but how do you explain clever winds and invisible whales to lawyers in suits?

But if the world must be made of car crashes and unspeaking books, let there be no guilt in companionship, no matter how brief.

Sorry doesn’t help. And there is nothing you can say to someone who is hurting to make them feel better.

Only you can provide the courage necessary to tirelessly pursue your choices, and therefore it must be you who decides the path before you

She's the most beautiful girl in existence. She makes everything brighter around her because she is filled with stories, and even when she thinks she can't take any more, she lets in another chapter and other. Because it's who she is.

But more than that," I say, "they love each other's secrets. She loves his journals and he loves her photos. She tolerates his brain-damaged dog and he lets her sit closer than he's used to letting people near him.

When I meet people, I always imagine what the world hides inside of them." - Amelia Unabridged

When I meet people, I always imagine what world hides inside them.