Christina June > Quotes

“Nothing is immovable, Tatum. Everything is negotiable.”
― Christina June, It Started With Goodbye

“He was the exclamation point at the end of a particularly long and frustrating, yet ultimately satisfying, chapter in the book of my life.”
― Christina June, It Started With Goodbye

“Some things are hard to forget, Tatum. Do not underestimate the power fear has over our choices.”
― Christina June, It Started With Goodbye

“I'd spent so much time saying things in my head, never letting those thoughts come off my lips. I'd used the words of others to express myself, protecting myself. I wrapped myself in an armor of silence and written words of other people. But now? I could draw strength from those words in a different way.”
― Christina June, No Place Like Here

“One of our friends who had immigrated at the same time told me that watching American television programs would help, so that's what I did. The Golden Girls was my favorite.”
― Christina June, It Started With Goodbye

“But if we only live our lives paying attention to unicorns and rainbows, we miss out on all the stuff that makes us human.”
― Christina June, Everywhere You Want to Be

“I cried for the girl whose voice remained unheard, who did her best to be good but didn’t always get it right. I cried for the girl constantly trying to forge a connection, to find someone who took her at face value and didn’t ask her to be something she wasn’t. I cried for the doors that had closed and cried for the one’s that might never open. I cried out of want, out of thirst for something nameless, my heart beating itself into a frenzy, my body completely boneless beneath the sheets, now heated and damp”
― Christina June, It Started With Goodbye

“Abuela chuckled softly. “Primroses are generally given to someone you can’t live without.”
― Christina June, Everywhere You Want to Be

“My heart grew three sizes when she said the magic words. No regrets. Even though my senior year hadn’t gone exactly as I’d planned, this was my second chance, and I was going to make the most of it.”
― Christina June, Everywhere You Want to Be

“didn’t matter if I was offered a job or not. The dream I didn’t know I wanted had already come true.”
― Christina June, Everywhere You Want to Be

“there is something to be said for being able to recognize the demons in ourselves and knowing we have the power to fight them.”
― Christina June, Everywhere You Want to Be

“Thinking of what Abuela had said about the primroses, I quickly looked up the meaning of sunflowers. As I expected, they meant happiness, but I was pleasantly surprised to see they also meant loyalty and adoration.”
― Christina June, Everywhere You Want to Be