Shayna > Shayna's Quotes

“Pain is pain is pain...no matter how large or small your problems, your losses, your wounds--they are yours. And you're allowed to feel them. The hardest loss will always be your own.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“First, there was trust. Then, there was betrayal. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot be betrayed by someone you do not trust.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“You are not searching for a thing so much as you are searching for an inconsistency of things, or an absence.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“It can really rob you of your faith in the human spirit, sometimes, the internet.”
― Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her

“And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Falling in
love is really quite simple,” she says. “You want to know the secret?
It’s the same thing we are all doing about life every single day.”

I look to her.

“Forget there’s an ending.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“You're never alone when there's a book,' she used to say. 'Never ever.”
― Riley Sager, The Only One Left

“You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“It was hard for me to accept the fact that we don’t choose who we love, because who you love changes everything.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“She carried a book at all times—to read, yes, but also as a handy shield for when she wanted to deflect the attention of other people. She would position a book in front of her face and think, or simply hide.”
― Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

“Secondly, pushing yourself to achieve your goals through negative self-talk leaves little room for self-acceptance and self-love if you don't reach your goal, setting you up for more internal berating in the future. This is the reason why not achieving a goal can leave you feeling worse than before you started.”
― Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom

“Sometimes bad things happen. And there’s no blame to be placed. You can’t reason with the universe, no matter how sound your logic is … We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“regret doesn’t really get us anywhere, does it? There’s no point rehashing things that have happened when we need to move forward.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“Your dreams are just as beautiful as anyone else's. Just because they don't align with the expectations set for you by someone else doesn't mean they aren't worth pursuing.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“I'd tried to get her out of my head, tried to forget our night together, to forget her like I knew she wanted me to, but I was barely strong enough to do it the first time.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“But I was never good at doing what I was supposed to.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“I didn't have to do drugs to know that she had been addicting in a way no substance would ever compare.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“I'm tired of being alone. I'm tired of denying myself anything else when it comes to you. I just want you.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“My entire being felt lighter around her. She felt like how it feels to be curled up on a comfy couch, snuggled up under a cozy blanket with a warm mug of hot chocolate in your hands on a snowy day. She felt like home - if home could be a person.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“You're too stubborn and prideful for your own good sometimes. Work on that.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“You've seen me at my worst and still chose me. Me. Not as I could be, or as I might've been, but as I am.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“But I want you. I want you more than anything. Life is just outlines without you in it. You fill every part of my day, every part of me with color, and I don't ever want to lose you again.”
― Amanda Pinkerman

“Romance novels give you an extremely unrealistic concept of romance. If”
― Freida McFadden, The Boyfriend

“They say time heals all wounds.”
― Mary Kubica, Local Woman Missing

“Trust and stupidity are close friends. Of course, no one really knows that until it’s too late.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“We were a sinking ship headed for the bottom of the ocean.”
― Gregg Olsen, Lying Next to Me

“Sometimes the only way to keep what you need is to let go of what you want.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“This is not our end. My heart will always remain with you no matter where we are. Time and distance are only inconveniences to a love like ours. Whether it’s days, months, or even years, I will be waiting. WE will be waiting.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“Our fates are intertwined, for I cannot exist in a world where you do not.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished