Lizzy > Lizzy's Quotes

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I simply didn't care. It cost so much, caring. I didn't have any currency to spend on it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Oh I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn't know her power, but I'm sick of all that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I've never thought of myself as a force to be reckoned with. Maybe I should start thinking of myself that way; maybe I deserve to.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Just take your place in the world with as much grace and gratitude as you can muster and try to see the best in us.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“People were incompetent and clueless, but I was, too—and we were all just doing our best.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Life is what you make it. See yourself as a victim, and that’s how it will always be.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Nothing good has ever happened at three in the morning. It’s the hour of terrible thoughts.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Everything always works out in the end. And if it didn’t work out yet, then it isn’t the end.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“don’t think you have to set fire to what’s behind you in order to go.”
― Maddie Dawson, The Magic of Found Objects

“Being nice is a good thing. You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“I wake with a jolt that sends a shock of pain through my ankle. Crying out, I look around me. Floral wallpaper. Am I at home? Who's that man in the chair by the door, reading .... "Twilight?" Leon blinks at me, putting the book down in his lap. 'You went from unconscious to judgemental very quickly there.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“Have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“Two a.m. is a terrible time for dwelling on legal issues. Worst of all the times. If midnight is witching hour, 2 a.m. is dwelling hour.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“oversharing is contagious.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“it’s in the broken places where the light gets in.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“We are all vibrational beings in physical bodies, and thoughts actually become reality so you have to make sure you’re thinking about what you want and not about what you don’t want.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Words are a good first step. They have a lot of power. You can summon things by believing in them. First you visualize them being true, and then they come true.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“We never got married because I’ve finally learned that if you have to bring the law into your personal relationships, then you’re doing it wrong.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“haven’t been able to sleep since four o’clock, that blackest of hours,”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“The full moon will wake you up if you sleep in the front bedroom. Still, that’s the room I recommend. It’s the best because you will hear the sounds of the outside world, and that will keep you grounded and sane.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“Whenever anything scared the living daylights our of me, that was a sign to me that I needed to throw myself into it. Ana you know what else? That's how I've lived my whole life, doing whatever scares me.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“but it’s so sad how he carries around him an aura of cloudy beige.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

“I work in a nursery school, so I get to spend my days sitting on the floor with three- and four-year-olds, talking. People think it must be the most boring thing in the world, but oh my God! They tell me about the most astonishing things. They get into philosophical discussions about their boo-boos and about how worms on the sidewalk get their feelings hurt sometimes, and why the yellow crayon is the meanest one but the purple one is nice. Can you believe it? They know the personalities of crayons.”
― Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners