Aurora > Aurora's Quotes

“..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
― Harlan Coben

“Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
― Harlan Coben, Promise Me

“Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.”
― Harlan Coben, Tell No One

“Man plans. God laughs.”
― Harlan Coben

“Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”
― Harlan Coben, Six Years

“Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?”
― Harlan Coben, Hold Tight

“We are often told during times of bereavement that time heals all wounds. That's crap. In truth, you are devastated, you mourn, you cry to the point where you think you'll never stop - and then you reach a stage where the survival instinct takes over. You stop. You simply won't or can't let yourself "go there" anymore because the pain was too great. You block. You deny. But you don't really heal.”
― Harlan Coben, Live Wire

“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”
― Harlan Coben, Six Years

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Sometimes you need to pretend to be someone else for a bit in order to accept yourself.”
― Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

“Naming children after their parents is stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,” his father said, “but he flew, do you see what I mean, Son? He was able to fly. It doesn’t matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“which god should she pray to if her god lets things like this happen.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“Does this pose a moral dilemma for you? Do you find it atrocious?” he asks. “Not at all. The human being is complex and I find the vile acts, contradictions, and sublimities characteristic of our condition astonishing. Our existence would be an exasperating shade of gray if we were all flawless.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“you’d better be something, and something really special, to justify all you’ve been given, and that can feel terrifying.”
― Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

“But when an anorexic says 'I don't want to be fat. I want to be thin.' They are saying 'I want to be other than I am. And what I am is unhappy. I want to be someone else.”
― Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia