Molly Ringwald > Quotes

“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. You will feel like you have been kicked in the stomach, that your insides have just separated to make room for something big.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“Anyone gots some mangoes up in here?”
― Molly Ringwald, Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick

“The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“For Peter, being with Greta was like being wrapped in a warm towel after emerging cold and shivering from the ocean.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You

“Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.”
― Molly Ringwald

“The heart is stupid.”
― Molly Ringwald

“I cannot stand the idea that he could be taken from me. That I could lose him. I discover for the first time—poor idiot—this stabbing pain of love.”
― Molly Ringwald, Lie With Me

“and by the time the kind, curly-haired Irish-American soldier showed up in their village just south of Düsseldorf and fell for Ilse”
― Molly Ringwald, When it Happens to You

“He groans, no longer able to contain it, a sound that he releases maybe without even realizing it himself; he moves me tremendously. As I've said, nothing in life moves me more than these moments of pure abandon, of self-oblivion.”
― Molly Ringwald, Lie With Me

“She would sit with picture books in her little lap before she even knew how to read, studying the writing as though all the mystery and wonder of the world were contained in the strange, indecipherable symbols.”
― Molly Ringwald, When It Happens to You