McKayla > McKayla's Quotes

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“I'm not myself," she offered, guiltily. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.

He smiled. "You can never say that. You're just a piece of yourself right now that you don't like.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they’re not what you hoped for them.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“I could have been stronger,” she said. “I wasn’t enough to keep something so important.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“Because watching him love Tiger Lily was better than not watching him at all.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe all the strings inside him broke.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are the only right ones?”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“I don't know. I didn't have that choice. But I know what's happening now. And I'm choosing to stay with you.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“The Garretts were my bedtime story, long before I ever thought I’d be part of the story myself.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“It's as though I don't make a ripple as I drop off the face of the earth.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“But here’s the truth: In movies, it’s never half so lovely as it is here and now with Jase.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“It's just whether you're going to do a decent thing or keep doing shitty things. So choose. Just stop whining about it.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“...And the way he does look at me makes me feel absolutely beautiful.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door