Alyssa Kellar > Alyssa's Quotes

“Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.”
― Kate Brian, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

“I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it's heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean… It takes on all kinds of different shapes—sometimes it's 'the nation,' and sometimes it's 'the law,' and sometimes it takes on shapes that are more difficult and dangerous than that. You can try cutting off its legs, but they just keep growing back. Nobody can kill it. It's too strong, and it lives too far down in the ocean. Nobody knows where its heart is. What I felt then was a deep terror. And a kind of hopelessness, a feeling that I could never run away from this thing, no matter how far I went. And this creature, this thing doesn't give a damn that I'm me or you're you. In its presence, all human beings lose their names and their faces. We all turn into signs, into numbers.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“You. Yes You”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“We
are Adam and Eve
born out of chaos called
creation
Ribbing me gave you life
yet you forget
there will always be
a part of me in you
yes
I taunted and tempted
you
with my forbidden fruit
does that make
me
the serpent too?
Believe what you will
but if I am exiled
alone
I know we will be
together again someday
naked
without shame
in paradise
My thanks to you
for being in on my
sin”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“You gotta take chances in this life or you're already
dead.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Crocodile Lies

I confess, yes, our Fall was all my fault
If you kissed my eyes, your lips would taste salt
But you think my regret is a lie, and the tears I cry
Are the crocodile kind.


The sweat on your upper lip starts to boil
White hot with anger, still convinced I'm your foil
You keep fighting me, though my eyes are free
From crocodile lies.


You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start
I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe
Your own crocodile lies.


The only person stopping you is yourself,
You won't accept that I want no one else,
So until you do, I'll let someone else have you


Every day I live the lie,
But not the crocodile kind

--Marcus Flutie”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Love," he said, "has the longest arms.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.”
― Megan McCafferty, Fourth Comings

“Words can be used as a bomb or balm.”
― Megan Mccafferty

“You have stopped the arrow of time...
There's no meaning to this rhyme...
Because my song will never mean as much as the one..
He once sang..
For you, yes, you...”
― Megan McCafferty

“As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“He always loved her because of, not in sprite of, her flaws.”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.”
― Megan McCaffertyMcCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“Every day, I live a lie
But not the crocodile kind.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Jessica..." The sound of his voice saying my name soothed me, and it's all I wanted to hear him say. Just my name, over and over and over again in his buttery baritone. I wanted my name to be his mantra, the word he meditated on, his tool for finding calm in the world.

But he kept on talking.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.”
― Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds

“We’re your friends,” said Bridget.
“And we’re worried about you,”said Pepe.
“I’m fine.” Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. “HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!”
Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)”
― Megan McCafferty , Charmed Thirds

“We just want to be where we're supposed to be. We just want to be with the people we want to be with. I don't think that's asking for too much, ya know what I'm saying?”
― Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths

“Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. ”
― Sarah Dessen

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.”
― Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist