Desirée > Desirée's Quotes

“La gente que está triste necesita gente que aún lo está más para entenderse.”
― Elísabet Benavent, Un cuento perfecto

“I’m afraid of the unpredictability of existing.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“Just because someone is your blood doesn’t mean they’re good for you. It doesn’t mean they have to be in your life when all they do is cause pain.”
― Cali Melle, Make Your Move

“When people tell you who they are, when they tell you what they want, believe them. Always believe them.”
― Kyra Parsi, Failure to Match

“You know how sometimes you manage to convince yourself that you’re fine and that everything is under perfect control when in reality you’re barely hanging on by a frayed thread? And then something really small happens or someone say something similar insignificant and it makes you break in half?
Well, I broke in half.”
― Kyra Parsi

“And this, I think, is my ultimate fatal flaw. Missing people who don’t miss me back. Clinging on to strands of string that shouldn’t mean half as much as they do. It takes so little for me to love someone, yet so long for me to move on.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“I guess my point is that I do believe in love. Really. I'm just not convinced that kind of love could ever happen to me.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“Maybe I’ll always be scared. Maybe the fear of getting hurt, of being left alone,
will never truly go away. But even if it’s my default setting, I can fight it. So many beautiful things lie on the other side of fear.
Like love.
Like this.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“But certain joys, I'm discovering, are worth the potential pain.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“But telling the truth - saying exactly what you mean, how you feel, to the people you care about most… That’s one of the hardest things in the world. Because you have to trust them. Trust that they won’t hurt you, even when they have the power to.”
― ann liang

“She’s worse than your ex,” Torres mumbled. “She’s your what-if.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“We’d proved to be the magnets that fate could never quit playing with.”
― Rebecca Yarros, In the Likely Event

“What if I’m only setting myself up to get hurt again?” I asked.
“I guess you have to decide if he’s worth the risk. And whether you’re willing to take the risk,” she said.”
― Alexandra Moody, Rival Darling

“Grief isn’t a linear path from loss to rediscovering joy and laughter. It’s a trail of zigs and zags, of ups and downs, that eventually leads to more happy days than sad ones. It’s a journey that never really ends, just becomes easier to travel.”
― C W Farnsworth

“The world may end someday, but not yet. Not today. For now, we’re all here together, and that can be enough. Tomorrow can be different. Tomorrow can be better. If we let it come”.”
― Jen St. Jude, If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

“It’s not always easy to be with the one you love. I realize it now. You need to work for it. But once you do, you can spend every day of your life feeling the way I’m feeling right now. Infinite.”
― N.S. Perkins, The Infinity Between Us

“Are you like the girls in the book too? Because I think I am.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“How am I supposed to know?” she asked instead. “What’s it supposed to be like?”

Lana and Claire traded tiny smiles, and Claire asked gently, “What’s what supposed to be like?”

Lily slumped back against the sofa, feeling boneless and muddled. “Falling in love, I guess.”

“You’ll know,” Claire said. “It’s unmistakable.”

(How she could recognize Kath at the other end of a crowded Galileo hallway by the way she walked.)

“It’s like . . . well, it’s like falling,” Lana said. “Falling, or floating, or sinking.”

(Every time they kissed.)

“You won’t know which way is up.”

“It’s like having a fever.”

(The way the world seemed to narrow down to the tips of Kath’s fingers.)

“It’s like being drunk—drunk for days.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“What if she had fallen in love with someone she shouldn't”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“But we're never what our parents expected. They have to learn that lesson.”
― Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

“you never know
this goes wrong one hundred percent of the time - until the one time it doesn’t”
― Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you're gonna get hurt. That's just the nature of caring about someone. No matter who you love, they will break your heart along the way.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I'm not saying that I didn’t care. I cared a lot. I’m saying that when you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Hay algo peor que el odio, y es la indiferencia.
El odio no es tan distinto del amor, pues ambos mantienen a esa persona viva y latente en ti de maneras muy similares. El odio es otra forma más de aferrarte a su idea, de tener motivos por los que pensarla, por los que seguir teniéndola presente de forma activa. La indiferencia, en cambio, le quita todo el poder que ejerce sobre ti. La indiferencia destripa todo atisbo de importancia que le puedes dar a esa persona, todo pensamiento que le puedes dedicar está completamente vacío, carente de emociones. Ni buenas, ni malas, nada.”
― Tamara Molina, Donde no puedas encontrarme

“No odio a Darek, al menos en estos momentos. Pero si hay algo por lo que jamás lo perdonaré será por haberme destrozado la idea que yo tenía concebida del amor. Mi corazón sanará, tarde o temprano.
Pero, por su culpa, nunca volverá a ser el mismo.”
― Tamara Molina, Donde no puedas encontrarme

“Stop losing your mind over someone who doesn’t mind losing you.”
― Alissa DeRogatis, Call It What You Want