Tori > Tori's Quotes

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
― Harlan Coben

“This book is dedicated to those who think Jess was Rory's best boyfriend. The rest of you are wrong.”
― Hannah Bonam-Young, Next of Kin

“I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are adults.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“She wanted to say "Don't leave me", but she couldn't do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“You know what I love most about you, Leni Allbright?"
"What?"
"Everything.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“Elsa said, "You saved me, you know."

"Mothers and daughters. We save each other, si?”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“You know what the say about finding a man in Alaska - the odds are good, but the goods are odd." - The Great Alone”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.”
― Ami McKay, The Birth House

“Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“I learned that you need not be born into a family to be loved by one.”
― Lisa Wingate, Before We Were Yours

“Perhaps we are cursed," Karkasy told the empty fane, "to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves.”
― Dan Abnett, Horus Rising

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Boxcar Librarian

“Hearts starve as well as bodies:
Give us Bread, but give us Roses

-James Oppenheimer, “Bread and Roses” 1911”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Boxcar Librarian