Lily > Lily's Quotes

“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.”
― John Green

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“My foot slipped. A split second. And for that split second, I was falling.

In that split second, I didn't panic.

I thought, 'oh'.

Then Rachel's hand wrapped around my arm and steadied me.

'Thanks,' I stared at the edge . . .

Two seconds ago all I could think was, 'oh, thank god, now it's over.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion

“You know the feeling when you're falling? When you take a step onto what used to be sold ground and suddenly it just falls out from under you? You start to spiral slowly, gathering speed until you know that you are within seconds from hitting the ground, and you're praying that you'll hit, that everything will just disappear, that everything you've been fighting to escape will just consume you and everything will be over. But then the ground doesn't come and you just keep falling and falling and falling, trapped in a nightmare that will never end.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion

“I've stood atop this cliff so many times that I feel like I know how far down the drop is, even though I've never jumped before.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion

“It's funny how, when we're children, all we want to do is grow up, but once we grow up, all we want to do is be children.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion

“Do not let all the mundane concatenations in this world be for naught,' said Lily Peters.
Which was just her way of saying, don't live for nothing.”
― B.C. Hedlund, Consigned to Oblivion