Tif Marcelo > Quotes

“Books are an escape. Books are a reminder that opposites can exist at the same time, both good and bad, positive and negative.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“I'm almost always thinking about the consequences of the past as well as preparing for the future. Right now, I want to stay in the present.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“But sometimes, with a book that takes me in so quickly and doesn’t let go, I’m left with a feeling of emptiness. It’s like a low-level mourning that I’ve lost the experience of reading the book for the first time. This is a book hangover.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“I’m sorry, I just totally upchucked my emotions right there, didn’t I?”
― Tif Marcelo, Once Upon a Sunset

“You are not a burden. Your dreams aren't burdens either.”
― Tif Marcelo

“The movie was completely eclipsed by you.”
― Tif Marcelo

“You are not a burden. Your dreams aren't burdens either.

- The Holiday Switch”
― Tif Marcelo

“And yet, it's not the going up that scares me, but the coming down. It's the misstep, the feeling of not being able to catch myself.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“Regina, I know that you and Sophie had a fight after Miko was born. But it wasn't her fault that Logan got reassigned so quickly, truly." Now, it was Adelaide who had to sit. She took the chair next to the door, precariously. She swallowed the nervous bubble rising in her throat. "It was me.”
― Tif Marcelo, In a Book Club Far Away

“Yeah, sometimes it means you do get hurt. Sometimes it means falling. But sometimes it's grabbing that extra bit of air and then catching yourself.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“Trust that someone else will make up for the moments you miss.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“Because books. Books are an escape. Books are a reminder that
opposites can exist at the same time, both good and bad, positive and
negative”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“But sometimes, with a book that takes me in so quickly and doesn't let go, I'm left with a feeling of emptiness. It's like a low-level mourning that I've lost the experience of reading the book for the first time. This is a book hangover.”
― Tif Marcelo, The Holiday Switch

“If this had been last week, she would have taken a picture of this closet and then slumped into a chair and spent too much time composing a message to accompany it. Now, she had neither the time nor the emotional bandwidth to do it.”
― Tif Marcelo, Once Upon a Sunset

“Their voices rang through the crowded kitchen. "Book Club!”
― Tif Marcelo, In a Book Club Far Away

“If Sophie heard Regina say "I volunteer as tribute" one more time, she was going to cry from laughter”
― Tif Marcelo, In a Book Club Far Away