Phases of Grace > Phases of Grace's Quotes

“Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“There was nothing healthy about desperately wanting something you couldn't have.”
― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Evil

“People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It is another thing to give up so young.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy...”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Loneliness is a strange sort of thing.
It creeps on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes by your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones, squeezing so tight you almost can't breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leaches the light out of every corner. It's a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when you're struggling to stand up.
You wake up in the morning and wonder who you are. You fail to fall asleep at night and tremble in your skin. You doubt you doubt you doubt.
do I
don't I
should I
why won't I
And even when you're ready to let go. When you're ready to break free. When you're ready to be brand-new. Loneliness is an old friend stand beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can't find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you're not enough never enough never ever enough.
Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion.
Sometimes it just won't let go.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am
frightened for you.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.”
― Richelle Mead, The Golden Lily

“Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.’ You know what I’m afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won’t know.”
― Richelle Mead

“...if there´s a beast,maybe he´s just a regular guy with a sin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Time goes on even when we do not.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I took a punch at one of the rosebushes. It got its revenge by stabbing me in the hand.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“The books...they helped keep me from losing my mind altogether.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured.
"Such unfortunate language." Warner shakes his head. "Only those who cannot express themselves intelligently would resort to such crude substitutions in vocabulary.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“I was outnumbered, unarmed, weak, and screwed. In that order.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

“Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skins. It reminds us that we've been marked by the world, that we're still alive. That we'll never forget.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”
― John Lancaster Spalding