Deb > Deb's Quotes

“Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.”
― Kevin Malarkey, The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven: A Remarkable Account of Miracles, Angels, and Life beyond This World

“I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life's events.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Youth is an arrogant place...”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“people change as they get older....grow wiser, make better decisions...i am very old,Laurel. Anyone who lives as long as I have can't help but collect regrets along the way....things they did in the past...things they wish they'd done differently.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“There was something about a book that inspired dedication and a swelling desire to possess it.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn’t, isn’t.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn’t been for him we’d all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.”
― Fannie Flagg, Standing in the Rainbow

“It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“What could be more perfect than marrying the person you love.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“She deserved a man who could offer her the best of everything, not a lifetime of butcher's leftovers got on the cheap and a drop of condensed milk in her tea when they couldn't stretch to sugar. Jimmy was working hard to become that man, and as soon as he did, by God, he was going to marry her and never let her go.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“It's a GIRL.
It's a little girl, with scrunched-up petal lips and a tuft of dark hair and hands in tiny fits, up by her ears. All that time, that's who was in there. And it's weird, but the minute I saw her I just thought: IT'S YOU. Of course it is.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby