Katie Ray > Quotes

“To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction.”
― Katie Ray

“The heart is the anarchist of the mind. The naughty child that never grows up. The hopeless romantic. The dreamer. The optimist. The risk taker. The sail that always wants to move. The wings that never want to land." CeCe”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“I loved that sports gave women a reason to be unpretty, in the traditional sense. It made stamina, strength, endurance, and mental toughness attractive. Flushed cheeks were your makeup, muscles your accessory, and sweat your glitter. I fit in well in this fashion runway show.”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“Charlotte, when you go, I’ll be left here. You seem to think this puts me at an advantage, but you’re wrong because right now, you’re the most beautiful problem in my life. Compared to you, everything seems inconsequential.” Charlie”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“If you go through life caring what everybody else thinks, you’re just going to be miserable. All that matters is what you think." - Tuba”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“It would never cease to amaze me at what some elements, under the right conditions, were capable of doing. How just one combination, one meeting, could produce such a storm of energy. But you needed the right combinations for a reaction to occur. The same rule applied to people." CeCe”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction.”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“The heart, it appears, doesn’t learn its lessons, avoid danger, run from confrontation, or walk away from disaster. The heart is the anarchist of the mind. The naughty child that never grows up. The hopeless romantic. The dreamer. The optimist. The risk taker. The sail that always wants to move. The wings that never want to land.”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“Our own eyes were our worst critics. Our own thoughts were the world’s harshest judges. “Your”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger

“I didn’t read to escape. I didn’t even read to be entertained. It was more elemental, more essential than that. I read because imagination was the only thing that elevated me beyond my own reality. To look at my world as my only plane of existence was so limiting, and a little depressing. I needed the boundless worlds I found in good fiction. I could stare at the characters and obsess over them. But they couldn’t stare back. They couldn’t ask me any questions, or know me. They couldn’t ever love me but they couldn’t judge or reject me, either. They couldn’t react to me. It was kind of like stalking, but a character in a novel can’t get a restraining order.”
― Katie Ray, Don't Kiss the Messenger