Eileen Rodrigues > Eileen 's Quotes

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“The most important time to listen is when words are missing, that’s when hearts cry out the loudest.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side

“Sadness is melancholy. Depression is a black hole of despair. I always imagine it’s like drowning. There are short bursts of fresh air, like Alice, but the past, the hopelessness, the guilt, and self-loathing is a pair of lead shoes that always pull me back under.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side

“People aren’t perfect. It’s not about loving them when it’s easy and convenient; it’s about loving them even more when it’s hard.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side

“The past clings to her and clouds her mind so completely that it governs her present and foretells her future.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side

“Everyone has a secret. The depth and darkness of that inner truth can be the precursor that determines ones lifeline or, perhaps, eventually, personality. To err is human, so I'm told. But my mistakes and regrets were buried so deep, darkened my soul so black, that they were no longer secrets, but bars on a prison I trapped myself in,”
― A.M. Hudson, Dark Secrets

“There is no music without you. Music is an expression of all of those things you live for…a reflection of the passion within your soul. I live for you. You’re my passion. You’re my music…you and Bea.”
― Penelope Ward, RoomHate

“Sometimes the thing we fear more than anything, is really what our soul craves the most.”
― Penelope Ward, RoomHate

“The way I see it, if you want to cheat on someone, you should just break up with them. Cheating is for cowards.”
― Penelope Ward, RoomHate

“Perhaps romance always seemed a slightly foolish thing to everyone until one actually fell into it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“For just a second, I saw Persephone, pomegranate in hand. Dooming herself to the underworld. Is that who I was? Hades himself, coveting springtime, stealing it, condemning it to endless night.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I knew her well enough to see that the sight of so many books in one room was something of a dream to her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“I buried my face in the hollow of her neck and breathed in her searing essence, wishing again, as I had in the beginning, that I could dream with her.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“There was a bit of Jane Eyre in her, a portion of Scout Finch and Jo March, a measure of Elinor Dashwood, and Lucy Pevensie.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“Edward,” she mumbled softly.
She was dreaming of me.
Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt as though mine was about to.
“Stay,” she sighed. “Don’t go. Please… don’t go.” She was dreaming of me, and it wasn’t even a nightmare. She wanted me to stay with her, there in her dream.
I struggled to find words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them.
When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been.
My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun

“When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful.”
― A. M. Hudson

“Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book.”
― A.M. Hudson

“So...you faze out, hear voices, and blame your tempered outbursts on a fictional creature living in...” he looked down at my stomach, “your belly.”
“Precisely. The boy catches on quick.”
― A.M. Hudson, Tears of the Broken

“Then, I guess, I can only hope that you will change your mind. But I will love you, without a doubt, for all eternity.”
― A.M. Hudson

“Who would I kill?” I asked, sitting up from him, wiping my face.
“Who?”
“Yeah, I mean, is it random, or do you choose them?”
“Well.” He grinned and picked an ant off the rug, then tossed it onto the grass. “I usually avoid eating comedians as much as possible.”
“Why?” I asked slowly.
“Because they taste funny.” His brows rose.
I imagined a tumbleweed rolling past as I listened for crickets. “That wasn't funny.”
― A.M. Hudson, Tears of the Broken

“Hope is the light you follow; faith is believing there is actually a light--they are the refusal to give up when you have no reason to go on.
--Snake to Ara (Mark of Betrayal, Book 4 dark Secrets)”
― A. M. Hudson

“Life is nothing without pain. We cannot feel the warmth of the sun without knowing cold; we cannot feel the joy of a smile without knowing heartache.”
― A.M. Hudson, Mark of Betrayal

“I moved over and sat within his glow, watching his shoulder moving with the strum, and I was suddenly so much more in love with him than I was a minute ago.”
― Angela M. Hudson, The Heart's Ashes