Lars Dekker > Lars's Quotes

“We could all probably be a little more benevolent in life. We all live here, after all. We all share the same mighty good company of the stars at night, and everyone deserves kindness, and survival. Everyone deserves to be seen.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Some people they grow wiser as they grow older. Unfortunately, most people just grow older.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I’ll give you the world,” he said against my mouth. “The moon. The fucking stars. Anything you ask, it’s yours. I’m yours.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“Alone, Empty, Fraud, Shame, Fear,
Close your eyes.There is nothing to see out here.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“It gets better, you are important, and you can't be replaced. Hang on. You'll fing youre tribe.”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“Zahra’s it for me. I know it with everything in me, and my intuition has never been wrong before. There’s nothing in the world I’ll find more beautiful than her. Not the sun. Not the moon. Not even the entire galaxy compares to the light she radiates wherever she goes.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Favorite word?” he whispers.
I don’t even hesitate: “You.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Why can’t everyone be like you?”

“I can be enough of your world that it feels like everyone is.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“there is nothing I want more than to turn a house into a home with you.”
― Lauren Asher, Terms and Conditions

“I’ll give you anything you want—anything at all—so long as you give me a chance to make you as happy as you make me. A dog. A family. A home. I want it all. These are my terms and conditions, take it or leave it because I’m not open to negotiations.”
― Lauren Asher, Terms and Conditions

“How about ten words then?” I laugh. “I’d like to see you try.” “I am falling in love with you, Iris Elizabeth Kane.”
― Lauren Asher, Terms and Conditions

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If you let lesser people determine your self-worth, you'll never reach higher than their limited imagination.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“If you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“She felt like heaven to my hell, the closest I’d ever get to salvation, and yet I still wanted to drag her into the depths of Hades with me.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“Being nice is a good thing. You can be strong and nice. You don’t have to be one or the other.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“Remind myself that there is no saving of people—people can only save themselves. The best you can do is help when they're ready.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“I wake with a jolt that sends a shock of pain through my ankle. Crying out, I look around me. Floral wallpaper. Am I at home? Who's that man in the chair by the door, reading .... "Twilight?" Leon blinks at me, putting the book down in his lap. 'You went from unconscious to judgemental very quickly there.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“It was never home until you were there, Tiffy.”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare

“Have you ever looked forward to reading a book so much you can’t actually start it?”
― Beth O'Leary, The Flatshare