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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.
Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
I would figure out, later, how to explain to my boss that, for me, Delia will never be a story, but a happy ending.
Sometimes when you find something you didn't really realize you were looking for, you just don't know how to react.
But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.
Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.
Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.
Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.
You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss
I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden.
but if I've learned anything, it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.
The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.
I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?
There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.
Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
Eventually, I told myself not to expect anything from him, and as a result it has gotten easier for me to take what comes.
I didn't want to see her because it would make me feel better. I came because without her, it's hard to remember who I am.
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.
That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.
If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.