Christine > Christine's Quotes

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

“Time is
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.”
― Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

“When love is not madness it is not love.”
― Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“One love, one heart, one destiny.”
― Robert Marley

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
― Stephen King

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

“1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don't Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don't Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my heroes.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.”
― Jim Butcher

“Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have
love, none of it means crap," he said promptly. "Love is patient.
Love is kind. Love always forgives, trusts, supports, and endures.
Love never fails. When every star in the heavens grows cold, and
when silence lies once more on the face of the deep, three things
will endure: faith, hope, and love.”
― Jim Butcher

“Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.”
― Jim Butcher

“Souls," I said. "I mean, you always wonder if they're real. Even if you believe in them, you still have to wonder: Is my existence just this body? Is there really something more? Do I really have a soul?"

Uriel's smile blossomed again. "You've got it backward, Harry," he said. "You are a soul. You have a body.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“Sometimes the only way to carry a heavy burden is to share it with another”
― Jim Butcher

“The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“...when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.

.......When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversion, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations have been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know they existed...... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

.....So ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he comes away from it utterly clueless? I know it's tempting fate to think to yourself, "The man can't possibly be that stupid!"

But yes. Yes, he can.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

“wherever you go, there you are”
― Jim Butcher

“We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”
― Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury

“Unicorns," I said. "Very dangerous. You go first.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

“Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

“I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.”
― Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty

“Ease off the martyr throttle.”
― Jim Butcher, Grave Peril

“He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.”
― Jim Butcher, Death Masks