Wendy > Wendy's Quotes

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”
― Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“SCORPIUS: Always.”
― J.K. Rowling

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“We're all a broken, in our own ways - In places no one might see.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Satan will often tell us what is true, but will never tell us the truth.”
― Kelly Minter, No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“the way they do remain a part of us, those people who have hurt us very deeply, or who we have hurt, never letting us go, not entirely.”
― Camilla Way, Watching Edie

“Hollows are proof that something bad can become something good with enough time and care and hope" -Red”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“But that's how it is when you love life. And I could accept that if my time had come, it had come. After a life as fine as mine, who was I to complain?”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“She had written something that felt like I could have written it, except I knew I couldn't have. I wouldn't have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Books are more real when you read them outside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“I know what it means to dream about the past.
To dream about things you have loved, and lost.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“It's all about yin and yang," she said, stroking my hair in her slow calming way, her voice as sweet and delicate as summer rain. "Balancing your energy. When you're angry or upset, stop for a moment and close your eyes. Breath in slowly. Imagine as you do that the air you take in is bright and golden, as lovely and light as your eyes. Let that brightness fill your belly. Then, when you exhale, picture the darkness that had been within you--whatever it was that upset you -- and visualize it leaving your body as you release your breath.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Darren knew the power of home, knew what it meant to stand on the land where your forefathers had forged your future out of dirt, knew the power of what could be loved up by hand, how a harvest could change a fate. He knew what it felt like to stand on the back porch of his family homestead in Camilla and feel the breath of his ancestors in the trees, feel the power of gratitude in every stray breeze.”
― Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird

“She was both proud of the fact that she had raised a strong-minded daughter and resentful of my sharp opinions.”
― Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

“My true loves were and still are books and writing stories and daydreaming. Sports were merely a distraction keeping me from what I really wanted to do.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Babe,” he says with a small smile on his full lips as he shakes his head. “You
called, I answered. You needed me, I was there. No matter what, no matter
how much time has passed, I’ll always be there when you need me. I’m yours.
Always have been,” he pushes himself off the couch and slowly stalks toward
me with his head lowered but his hungry eyes on mine. I didn’t realize I was
walking to him too until we’re standing in front of each other. He wraps his
hand around the back of my neck in a possessive hold and pulls me to him,
making me crane my head back to look into his eyes. “Always will be.”
― Haley Tyler, Killing Calm

“I will feed you when you’re hungry. I will keep you safe when you’re scared. I will hold you when you’re hurt. I will find you when you’re lost. I will tell you that you’re my goddess every single day. And I will love you no matter what.”
― Amelia Kingston, So, That Got Weird

“It wasn’t that she didn’t like people. It was only that she liked books more.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop