22 Quotes by Stephanie Butland

But you say it “in-TREE-ging”, LJ, not “in-trig-you-ing”.’ I said it back to her, ‘In-TREE-ging.’ (Okay, this is a problem with books. But the only one.)

Archie says books are our best lovers and our most provoking friends.

God, I don't love much but I love words.

First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.

I reminded myself that a beginning and an ending are two different places, and, in real life, you might be able to make your own ending, whatever had gone before.

It's good to be reminded that the world is full of stories that are, potentially, at least as painful as yours.

There's no such thing as ordinary, just like there's not really a normal.And there's no such thing as special, either. Or rather, we bring our own special. We make it. We make it when we dare and we make it when we ask for help. We make our lives special when we choose to forgive and move on, and not to make ourselves the centre of everything. We make specialness by trusting to the music and the dance.

I don't see why women still have to be happy because of a man in the twenty-first century, as though we're not capable of our own, dick-free, joy.

A book is a match in the smoking second between strike and flame.