Jordee Hunter > Jordee's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Just because we mess up doesn’t mean all the lessons we learned are undone. Healing can be imperfect.”
― Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

“Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles”
― Rowena Cherry, Knight's Fork

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“The life-changing magic of not giving a fuck is all about prioritizing. Joy over annoy.”
― Sarah Knight, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“How can you get rid of a book? That’s like throwing away knowledge.”
― Freida McFadden, The Devil Wears Scrubs

“Life is too short to read boring books.”
― Freida McFadden, Want to Know a Secret?

“The frustration is compounded because people think ADHD means we should all be physically hyperactive (and sometimes we can be – remember that time when we did a week’s worth of stuff in an afternoon?), but most of the time it’s internalized, it’s in my mind, and it causes me huge overwhelm, so please don’t call me lazy. It isn’t a choice.”
― Alex Partridge, Now It All Makes Sense: How An ADHD Diagnosis Brought Clarity to My Life

“The most frustrating thing about living with ADHD is when someone witnesses a shutdown and calls me lazy. I get it, it might look like laziness when I’m lying on the sofa, doom-scrolling social media, but the truth is, I’m in a state of decision paralysis and overwhelm.”
― Alex Partridge, Now It All Makes Sense: How An ADHD Diagnosis Brought Clarity to My Life

“Our natural empathy and drive to make others happy create a powerful source of motivation because we associate the outcome of a task with how someone else is going to feel.”
― Alex Partridge, Now It All Makes Sense: How An ADHD Diagnosis Brought Clarity to My Life

“We feel this urgency to act straight away because we’re subconsciously worried about forgetting the thought. You can bypass this urgency by writing the thought down. I always have a blank piece of paper nearby. If I’m working and a random thought enters my mind, I pick up my pen immediately and write it down. I park it for later. This enables me to stay focused on what I’m doing.”
― Alex Partridge, Now It All Makes Sense: How An ADHD Diagnosis Brought Clarity to My Life

“If you think the story has a sad ending, it's because it's not over yet.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“There’s an old saying about stories, and how there are always three versions of them: yours, mine, and the truth.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Then again, maybe love was always a gift. The only thing that couldn’t be bought or sold or bartered for.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Just because something doesn’t make money or win awards doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“yes, sometimes she read too much. Sometimes, she read books instead of living a life,”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“You honestly expect me to believe that people go on vacations without making a spreadsheet of fun first?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“When the doctors can find absolutely no reason for something, they say it’s idiopathic. My GP told me
jokingly that what this really means is that the doctor is an idiot and the patient is pathetic.”
― Lindy Amato, The Meeting

“Sadly, one can never recreate what is lost. Neither art nor love can be brought back to life. When it is
gone, it is gone forever.”
― Lindy Amato, The Meeting

“Creativity too has its moment to be born and must be nurtured or it will fade.”
― Lindy Amato, The Meeting

“Time was like that — a fickle trickster who rushed past you in the blink of an eye when you were doing
something you loved, and yet poured itself out as slowly as treacle when you most wanted it to pass.”
― Lindy Amato, The Meeting

“Perfection is boring,” he frequently told her, when she marvelled at how quickly he could create the
pen and ink sketches he produced daily. She admired how prolific he was. “Spontaneity — the moment.
That is an art in itself, my dear Hermine,” he continued excitedly, as she praised a southern street scene
he had captured in watercolour. “If I polish too much, you see, it loses its meaning.”
― Lindy Amato, The Meeting