Xara > Xara's Quotes

“That's what makes it so right. Your eyes—your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.”
― Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

“The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
unspoken cosmic rule.”
― Bree Despain, The Dark Divine

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

“they say money changes you. it isn't true. it changes everybody around you.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can't get back on the right one?”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“TIME

Time
goes round and round
the spinning clock,
until the fateful day
time
folds it's tired hands
and
stops.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“WORDS

I carry a message
that i cannot read.
The words may be haunting
or tender or sweet.
Thought what it says
I do not know,
I still carry it with me,
wherever i go.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“The Road

Life isn't a destination
It's a journey.
But you gotta be heading somewhere
or you're just a mouse
going round.
Even if
the place you wind up
isn't the place
you where bound”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“People look at me and say I've got it all,
But when you're standing at the top you've got
A log, long way yo fall
And tell me if i do
Can i depend on you?
Will you be the man
Who will catch me if you can?
'Cause I'm fallin' hard
I'm fallin' fast
And i gotta know
If it's gonna last.
You're the one i need
To teach me to believe”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“The mind can only remember what it's willing to remember - because if you are guilty, then the truth is not the thing that sets you free. It's the thing that gets you locked away.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“I have learned there is more than one way to die.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.”
― Carolee Dean, Take Me There

“People always say
chocolate makes
everything better.

I say friends make everything better.”
― Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before

“One time Mom told me the people
you can be quiet with
are the ones
you are the most comfortable with.”
― Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before

“I wish
for the breeze to
blow away
our troubles.

I wish
for the sun to
dry out
our sorrows.

I wish
for the friendship
to fill up
our hearts.”
― Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before

“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. And as long as I had a part in the music of the spheres, even if it was only a single grace note, I was not worthless. Nor was I alone.”
― R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet

“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Going from love to loneliness was worse than not knowing love at all.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“It kind of sucked when she had to take a break from fighting evil to use her inhaler.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“Unfortunately for her, he was her weakness.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“Janie - with you, life is always interesting.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“His green eyes blazed with an impassioned craving to want and to be wanted.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“He smiled, immediately making Janie forgive him for lurking like a stalker in her bedroom.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“It couldn't be true. She'd finally put her guard down, tried to trust in someone other than her mother and Abram. She'd finally found someone to love. It couldn't be. God couldn't be so cruel.”
― Taryn Browning, Dark Seeker

“This is Ireland, Finley. It's rough. It's wild. And it is holy.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

“When I get to heaven one day, I'm going to ask God how it's possible that time moves so much quicker on the weekends than on school days.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

“To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, " she said. "But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

“My fate is like those envelopes – sealed and tossed aside.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me

“In all these things, I am more than victorious through Him who loves me.”
― Jenny B. Jones, There You'll Find Me