Tiza > Tiza's Quotes

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented?”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“Do I love him? Yes. But when the final battle comes, I'll have to kill him. That's just our reality. We both know exactly where we stand."- Francesca”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.”
― Lauren Kate, Torment

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Why is love intensified by absence?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“Time is priceless, but it’s Free. You can't own it, you can use it. You can spend it. But you can't keep it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give. ”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I had the heart of the relationship, and no body to grow it in... It broke. ”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper