Lara > Lara's Quotes

“They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

“There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.”
― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

“And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness.”
― Miranda Kerr

“Can't stay long, Mother," he said. "I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-"
"Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?" said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. "You should have said something, we had no idea."
"Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-"
"Or twice-"
"A minute-"
"All summer-"
"Oh, shut up," said Percy the Prefect.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...is to press play.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I can't. You can't rewrite the past.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“After all, how often do we get a second chance?”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss her. To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“How many times had I let myself connect with someone only to have it thrown back in my face?”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed.
He's letting me go.
I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me.
A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out.
And I did find out.
And I'm sorry.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people - Hannah Baker”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“All you really have..

..Is now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“I was breaking. If only I’d talked to you sooner. We could have been … we could’ve … I don’t know. But things had gone too far by then. My mind was set. Not on ending my life. Not yet. It was set on floating through school. On never being close to anyone. That was my plan. I’d graduate, then I’d leave.

But then, I went to a party. I went to a party to meet you.

Why did I do that? To make myself suffer? Because that’s what I was doing – hating myself for waiting so long. Hating myself because it wasn’t fair to you.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“With everything going on in my life – going on in my head – I wanted to talk with you. Really talk. Just once. A chance we never seemed to get at school. Or at work. A chance to ask, Who are you?'
We didn’t get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid that I had no chance with you.
That’s what I thought. And I was fine with that. Because whit if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything . . . affects everything.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why