Quotes About Belief

It hadn't made sense. He wouldn't accept it. He wouldn't go home.

You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.

Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen.

Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe.

The mortals no longer want you.' Wren shook her head, because that couldn't be true. Her mother and father loved her. Her mother cut the crusts off her sandwiches and kissed her on the tip of her nose to make her giggle. Her father cuddled up with her to watch movies and then carried her to bed when she fell asleep on the couch. She knew they loved her. And yet the certainty with which Lord Jarel spoke plucked at her terror

She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.

Not me." She shakes her head. "I am going to fall in love." I am surprised into laughter. "So you've just decided? I didn't think it worked like that. I thought love was supposed to happen when you least expected it, like sap to the skull." "Well, I have decided," she says.

The most infuriating part was that she didn't have to mean it. She was mortal. She could lie. So why wouldn't she?

They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.

What a freeing thought it was to no longer believe I had to deserve something in order to get it.

Human girls cry when they're sad and laugh when they're happy. They have a single fixed shape rather than shifting with their whims like windblown smoke. They have their own parents, whom they love. They don't go around stealing other girls' mothers. At least that's what Kaye thought human girls were like. She wouldn't really know. After all, she wasn't human.

The rich believed they were lucky, and that any fortune they didn't already have could be bought. They had so much already, disappointment became inconceivable.

It turns out that men have more authority, even when they're not real.

Have you ever heard this one? When you drive past a cemetery, you have to hold your breath. If you don't, the spirits of the newly dead can get in your body through your mouth and then they can possess you.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

God and I weren't on speaking terms. Still, no bars for me on Sundays.

I know there's no real Santa. Remember that little girl in the book you read me? That newspaper guy told her that it's okay if moms and dads bought the presents, 'cause they had Santa in their heart. Well, I got him in my heart, too. So, it's okay if Connie don't believe, 'cause I know my heart is big enough for Santa and me.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

People think they have to physically die before going to heaven or starting new lives, depending on their religions. The truth is that you can start a new life anytime you choose, as easily as waking from a dream.

All men have need of the gods.

A dream, too, is from Zeus.

But Marge, what if we chose the wrong religion? Each week we just make God madder and madder.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.