Amber > Amber's Quotes

“What a marvel it was. What freedom. To be a woman unabashedly in love beneath a multitude of stars.”
― Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“With the sun on my face and a dog at my side, I have so much capacity for good.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Those were the endings I found solace in. The ones that said, Yes, you have lost something, but maybe, someday, you’ll find something too.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“She understands what it means to never be able to stop moving, lest you find yourself unable to breathe.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“My death is imminent. But I am not dead yet.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it's so restful.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“My anger’s a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“He rolls onto his side and listens, trails the back of his hand across the pillow next to him and imagines Henry lying opposite in his own bed, two parentheses enclosing 3,700 miles.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you'll wake up and be a natural at it.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Fashions come and go, but jawlines are eternal.”
― Maureen Johnson, The Box in the Woods

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“She appeared to have jumped out of the frying pan of sexism and into the fire of ageism. The final frontier of isms.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

“Happiness couldn’t be won. It couldn’t be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn’t a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“You can always be better. But don't let that stop you from carrying yourself like a champion. If you don't believe you're the best, no one else will either.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Such a tough life. This is not the easy way."
"No," Penn agreed, "but I'm not sure easy is what I want for the kids anyway."
She looked up at him. "Why the hell not?"
"I mean, if we could have everything, sure. If we can have it all, yeah. I wish them easy, successful, fun-filled lives, crowned with good friends, attentive lovers, heaps of money, intellectual stimulation, and good views out the window. I wish them eternal beauty, international travel, and smart things to watch on tv. But if I can't have everything, if I only get a few, I'm not sure easy makes my wish list."
"Really?"
"Easy is nice. But its not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe in," said Penn. "Easy is nice. But I wonder how often it leads to fulfilling work or partnership or being."
"Easy probably rules out having children," Rosie admitted.
"Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.”
― Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

“I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

“Shiloh made friends in school and at work, with people she was trapped with all the time anyway. The idea of making friends in the wild? Inconceivable. And completely unappealing.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

“It won't be easy with anyone. It may as well be 'not easy' with someone you love.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

“Every time you tell me that we're going to have problems in the future, all I think about is how lucky I am to have a future with you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

“I used to think it was vital to know things, to feel safe in the learning and recounting of facts. I used to think it was possible to know enough to escape from the panic of not knowing, but I realise now that you can never learn enough to protect yourself, not really.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“In truth, we will only perform any action a certain number of times, and to know that can never be helpful. There is, in my opinion, no use in demanding to know the number, in demanding to know upon waking the number of boxes to be ticked off every single day. After all, why would it help to be shown the mathematics of things, when instead we could simply imagine that whatever time we have is limitless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“The problem with relationships between women is that neither one of you is automatically the wronged party, which frankly takes a lot of the fun out of an argument.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea