Bree Smith > Bree's Quotes

“But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
― Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things

“Maybe no good timing means there's no bad timing either.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“I've realized a world run by people who think they are better will never be better for everyone.”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Final Strife

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Sometimes, it's the smallest things that can change everything when you least expect it.”
― T.J. Klune, In the Lives of Puppets

“I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”
― Tara Westover