Leddy Harper > Quotes

“Forgiveness isn't for the person making the error. It's for the person wronged. It's so you can move on without the pain, anguish, resentment. You need to forgive and mean it. Only then will you be able to move on.”
― Leddy Harper, My Biggest Mistake

“It's the hard things in life that hold the most achievement. Would you rather win a small-town race or win the gold at the Olympics? Think of this as the big games, the Mount Everest. Tackle it, conquer it, and bring home the gold.”
― Leddy Harper, My Biggest Mistake

“When the devil inside shows his face. You’re lucky if it’s something superficial, something that won’t cut you off at the knees. But as I’d learned about evil hiding in plain sight, when the angelic mask comes off, you’re already broken into unmeasurable pieces, unable to put yourself back together again. Even Satan had wings at one point.”
― Leddy Harper, The Roommate "dis"Agreement

“remember”
― Leddy Harper, The Boy Next Door

“Depression doesn't just go away. Even after working through it, talking it out, dealing with it whichever way you so choose, it doesn't go away. There's always that little voice that will find the right moment to speak up”
― Leddy Harper, My Biggest Mistake

“Yeah, but everything you just said can be explained."

"Only to those who care for an explanation.”
― Leddy Harper, The [Secret] Baby

“getting things set up for the closing. It wasn’t all a lie—”
― Leddy Harper, The [Secret] Baby

“Guys were easy--if they were pissed, they'd tell you; you'd hash it out, and then it was water under the bridge, never to be spoken of or remembered again. However, the exception to that was when you did something to someone they cared about.”
― Leddy Harper, The [Secret] Baby

“For the love of fried rice, look at me, Jay.”
― Leddy Harper, The (Half) Truth

“Mistakes happen...you learn, you grow, and you teach. There's no such thing as moving on...you carry on. You live on”
― Leddy Harper, My Biggest Mistake

“You can't save the world, Eddie. You need to understand and accept that. Even when you do set out on your journey to help people or spread awareness, whichever way you choose to do, you need to understand you can't save everyone. There are going to be people that are stuck in their own way, that are beyond your reach, and that's okay. As long as you know you did everything you could, it's okay”
― Leddy Harper, My Biggest Mistake

“He paused and laced his fingers with mine. “When I was in first grade, my parents let me have a friend stay the night. I asked him if he wanted to play a game. When I told him what it was, he cried and asked my mom if he could go home. I didn’t know why he wanted to leave, and my parents just thought”
― Leddy Harper, The Boy Next Door

“That has to be a mistake—”
― Leddy Harper, I Do

“Being part of a strong support system is far better than being part of a weak one.”
― Leddy Harper, I Do

“We both said we’d likely never make it down the aisle. Then you brought up some book you read about two friends who agreed to marry each other by whatever age if they were both single, and before I knew it, we had made the same pact.”
― Leddy Harper, I Do

“Focus on the positives, look toward the future. Concentrate on where you want to be, how you want to feel, and remind yourself of that every hour of everyday until you believe it. Until you no longer have to repeat it. Know where you are going and only focus on that, stop dwelling on the rest”
― Leddy Harper, My Biggest Mistake