Alexa Stallings > Alexa's Quotes

“Because I am enough... I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“I'll orbit around you and be your universe, because you've always been my sun”
― Abby Jimenez, The Friend Zone

“No," he says quietly. "In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“What's your best discovery?' asked the mole.

'That I'm enough as I am.' said the boy”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Favorite word?” he whispers.
I don’t even hesitate: “You.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“I now understand that life, and living it, is more about being present. I’m now aware that the not-so-happy memories lie in wait; but the hope and the joy also lie in wait.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me

“I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“If you only shine light on your flaws, all your perfects will dim.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“This one is for the softies. The tenderhearted sweeties. The introverts who are afraid to shine.”
― Sarah Adams, Practice Makes Perfect

“Things will change more radically than you could ever imagine”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“If you can't treat yourself with kindness, care, and patience, chances are someone else won't either”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“People are people and we all make, allow, and enable mistakes”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Wrap your arms tightly round your body and, as you hold yourself, hold this one thought in your head: I've got you.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“To choose to love is to take a risk. Always. That's why it's called falling”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“When you're looking for love and it seems like you might not ever find it, remember you probably have access to an abundance of it already, just not the romantic kind.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Doesn’t it bother you? That your husbands have become such a headline story, so often mentioned, that they have nearly eclipsed your work and yourself? That all anyone talks about when they talk about you are the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo?” And her answer was quintessential Evelyn.
“No,” she told me. “Because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You are moving out of the realm of fantasy "when I grow up" and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“When suddenly more of my heart belongs to him than doesn't, I know I'll never get a single grain back.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“The feeling of being so grateful to have something worth missing.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“She’s not you.”

“What?”

“She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Kind," said the boy.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“What do you think is the biggest waste of time?"
"Comparing yourself to others," said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“We often wait for kindness...but being kind to yourself can start now.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“Life is difficult - but you are loved”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

“You look best when you're you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“I think just because you can't keep something doesn't mean it wasn't worth it. Nothing lasts forever. What matters is what we take with us.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“Maybe love isn't a judgment you render - but a chance you take. Maybe it's something you choose to do over and over. For yourself and everyone else.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song. And that nightgown, and the way you get so cranky when I leave my stuff all over the place, and the way you tie your hair back in that crazy bun. You make me laugh every single day—and nobody makes me laugh. I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“Nothing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip