trulyness > trulyness's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“You found me in a constellation.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“There is a small monster in my brain that controls my doubt.
The doubt itself is a stupid thing, without sense or feeling, blind and straining at the end of a long chain. The monster though, is smart. It's always watching, and when I am cmpletely sure of myself, it unchains the doubt and lets it run wild. even when I know it's coming, I can't stop it.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“There are monsters in the sea.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“For everyone who’s ever finished a book
under the covers with a flashlight
when they were supposed to be sleeping.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“... and all of them are children of parents that pressure the shit out of them to be the best and then all of a sudden you don't get into your first choice, or your second choice, or your safety, and you end up going to community college and discovering that doesn't really make any difference! It's what you do with it that matters! It's all the goddamn same!!”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“For a single woman, it's all very impressive."

I took a breath. Why was there always that qualification? What if every time I commented on a man's success I said, for someone whose genitalia is dangerously housed outside of their bodies, it's a reasonable effort.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“snag a chocolate croissant, the silver medal of pastries. I got a cup of tea, too, because I had what Mom calls an emotional hangover from the previous evening. I’m sure you’ve had one: Everything is a little bit loud, you seem to have lost a few layers of skin, and tears are a distinct possibility. I think Mom has one, too; she and I have barely spoken, but not in an unfriendly way. Just in a not-speaking way that could go either way any second. Mom taught me that emotional hangovers need four things to dissipate: caffeine, sugar, space, and time.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“I wanted that November feeling, you know, when you suddenly remember the holidays are coming and your tummy gets all excited and it's like being seven again.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“I was suddenly filled with sympathy for her, as I am for all young people. It's a little bit hideous, that first part of adulthood.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“They love to criticize us for being on our phones, despite the fact that their generation created the phones, marketed the phones, and are profiting from the phones. They're drug pushers making fun of the junkies, which, if you think about it, is lame AF. Besides, any day now those same junkies are taking over the street corner, so they should try to be nice.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Beauty always fades, but it lasts so much longer if you lay a thick layer of intelligence and integrity underneath it.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“The parents are the worst! They completely lose their minds, like academic bridezillas, focused on getting their precious mini-me into college and never for a minute thinking about what happens when the poor bastards actually get there, not to mention when they get out! God forbid they learn to fend for themselves or trust their own judgment or fail and struggle and succeed on their own terms. No! Everything has to be smoothed out and landscaped for Tiffany and Kody and Jasmine and Joshua, and if regular people get run over in the process, then that's how the cookie crumbles!”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“My dad managed to convey the importance of working hard in school using a subtle blend of emotional blackmail (I’m paying for the best high school in New York, don’t make me regret it) and fear (if you don’t work hard now you won’t get into a good college and you won’t get a good job and you won’t meet a nice man and you’ll end your life filled with regret and fast food). It was incredibly effective.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Everyone tells you middle school is fun, and then you get there and it sucks. Then high school is going to be fun, but you get there and it both sucks and is really hard. Now, apparently, college is going to be fun, but it really seems like one more hurdle standing between me and actual happiness. Whatever that is.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Regret is one of those emotions that outpunches reality: Even if you 100 percent could not have done things differently, it still pops up and takes a jab.”
― Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier

“Life hurts,” he said fiercely. “It’s unavoidable. But I know the difference between torture and growing pains.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Love is certainly never safe, but it’s absolutely worth it.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“She missed him. She missed him so much that she was starting to hate him.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“Anxiety and excitement are cousins; they can be mistaken for each other at points. They have many features in common—the bubbling, carbonated feel of the emotion, the speed, the wide eyes and racing heart. But where excitement tends to take you up, into the higher, brighter levels of feeling, anxiety pulls you down, making you feel like you have to grip the earth to keep from sliding off as it turns.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Vanishing Stair

“Lightness, like anything inherited at great cost, was a lonely gift.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“You can escape a town, but you cannot escape blood.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“You can’t tell people what to be, I’m afraid,” said Rosie. “You can only love and support who they already are.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“As we duel, as we chat, there's an understanding that "your black is not my black" and "your weird is not my weird" and "your beautiful is not my beautiful," and that's okay. It' brings tears to my eyes if I think about it too long.”
― Brittney Morris, Slay

“Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you're always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you're forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing. We don't take our eyes off them for days at a time, but then you read just one text message and it's as if all your best moments never happened. No one goes to see a psychologist to talk about all the times they weren't hit in the head by a swing as a child. Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games