Stefanie Lam > Stefanie's Quotes

“I can't help but think of the phrase '' sometimes it is better to be kept in the dark than be blinded by the light.”
― Anna Todd, After

“You told me once that I bring out the worst in you. Well, you bring out the best in me.”
― Anna Todd, After

“I saw the empty, sad girl
smile for the sad boy who loves her with all of his
broken soul.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“I bring out the worst in you, but you bring out the best in me”
― Anna Todd

“You aren’t my type, just the way that I am not yours. But that’s why we are good for each other—we are so different, yet we’re the same. You told me once that I bring out the worst in you. Well, you bring out the best in me. I know you feel it, too, Tessa. And yes, I didn’t date, until you. You make me want to date, you make me want to be better. I want you to think I am worthy of you; I want you to want me the way I do you. I want to fight with you, even scream at each other until one of us admits we are wrong. I want to make you laugh, and listen to you ramble about classic novels. I just . . . I need you. I know I am cruel at times . . . well, all the time, but that’s only because I don’t know how else to be.” His voice becomes a half whisper, his eyes wild. “This has been me for so long, I have never wanted to be any other way. Until now, until you.” - Hardin”
― Anna Todd, After

“I have come to learn that the people who pretend to care the least actually care the most.”
― Anna Todd

“You aren’t the one who was ruining me, I did it myself. I changed and you changed, but you changed for the better, I didn’t”
― Anna Todd

“Pain is one of those hideous places that once visited you have to fight your way out and even when you think you have escaped you are permanently branded”
― Anna Todd

“I know this happiness that I feel isn’t going to last, and I feel like Cinderella, waiting for the clock to strike and end my blissful night.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“I love you too.”

“Don’t say too, it sounds like you’re just agreeing with me.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Whatever the hell our souls are made of hers and mine are the same.”
― Anna Todd, After

“The best thing about reading is to escape
from your life, to be able to live hundreds or even
thousands of different lives.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“You won’t know how lucky you are to be able to spend your life with the other half of your soul until you have to spend your life without them.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“The worst part of being okay is that okay is far from happy.”
― Anna Todd

“There is a big difference between not being able to live without someone and loving them.”
― Anna Todd, After We Fell

“Do you remember when you asked me who I loved the most in the world? It's you. You're the person that I love most in the world.”
― Anna Todd, After

“Sometimes you just have to choose to let things go, to move on.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“After everything, we made it. Whatever the hell our souls are made of, they are the same.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“A lot of you cared, just not enough.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
― J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Vol. 2

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places