Jamie > Jamie's Quotes

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Yeah, sorry, I ate a homeless guy’s eyeball last night, and I’m really struggling with it, so. . . .”
― Monika Kim, The Eyes Are the Best Part

“He squeezes my hand so tight, I can't feel it anymore. I wish someone would do that to my heart.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I lifted my eyes to the ceiling, to see scarlet fireworks that would have been spectacular had they not been made of gore.”
― Eric Rickstad, I Am Not Who You Think I Am

“You already have a lot of ideas about Hell. It’s amazing what Dante and thousands of years of folklore can do to a place’s reputation. I mean, I’m not going to lie to you: it is Hell. It’s not fantastic. But let’s see if this is relatable: You’re late to your aunt’s boyfriend’s birthday brunch because your alarm was on mute even though you know you turned it up the night before. You barrel onto the subway, managing to squeeze yourself between the woman blasting a Techno for the Lonely playlist and the man who farts every time he sneezes, and, just when the lights of the station are out of view, the train lurches to a stop with a death rattle and goes dark. The woman elbows you in the gut as she hits Replay, and the man’s snot tickles as it spays your cheek, and you think about how you don’t even like your aunt’s boyfriend or even your aunt and you hate brunch, and what do you see? I’ll tell you; I’ve heard it a million times. You say, ‘This is Hell’.
Well, you're right. That's Hell. At least the top floors of it.”
― Claudia Lux, Sign Here

“I much prefer the idea of going all in. I’ve always wanted someone I could instantly click with and then just fucking drown in.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“My heart slammed into a new kind of beat, one that knew it had the love of its other half. It”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I felt such humility and gratitude for every second we spent together. I was aware how lucky, how incredibly fortunate I was to have such love, how rare it was, and how others weren’t so lucky.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“When he finally managed it, he truly saw her for the first time, and what he saw made his heart ache. She wasn’t pretty like Lucy. Lucy was more of a generic, everyday pretty rather than genuinely beautiful. Michael had seen that kind of pretty more times than he could count. Snow White was ethereal, as though she’d been plucked from the pages of a storybook.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Brother

“I would've given up without her - not on you, never on you, but on myself. I suppose I can tell you this now, but I wasn't a very good student. I wasn't smart enough to just get by. I wasn't focused enough in class. I rarely passed exams. I skipped assignments. I was constantly on academic probation. Not that your grandmother would ever know, but at the time, I was thinking of doing what you were later accused of doing: selling all my belongings, sticking out my thumb, and hitchhiking to California to be with the other hippies who had dropped out and tuned in.

Everything changed when I met your mother. She made me want things that I had never dreamed of wanting: a steady job, a reliable car, a mortgage, a family. You figured out a long time ago that you got your wanderlust from me. I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: That restless feeling dissolves like butter.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“We lie there in the darkness in silence a few feet from the tent, my spine against his stomach, his hands on my sides. I've never been so aware that I am made up of bones and skin and I can practically feel my bones inching closer to the surface of my skin aching to get even closer to his.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“My heart is pounding like it wants out. I wish I could give it a way out. I’d set the mother-fucker free right now if I could.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Thank you for being the most comforting part of my life right now. Thank you for always being the beacon I need every time I feel lost. Whether you mean to shine on me or not. I am grateful for you. I’ve missed you. I absolutely should have kissed you.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“The worst part of being okay is that okay is far from happy. Okay is that gray space in the middle where you can wake up each day and carry on with your life, even laugh and smile often, but okay isn’t joy. Okay isn’t looking forward to each second of your day, and okay isn’t getting the most out of life. Being okay is what most people settle for, myself included, and we pretend that okay is fine, when we actually hate it, and we spend the majority of our time waiting to break out of just being okay. He gave me a taste of how great life can be outside of okay, and I’ve missed it ever since. I’ve been okay for a long time, and I’m not sure how to get out of it now, but I hope for the day that I can say I’m great instead of I’m okay.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“There was so many things I should have said, could have said, and sure as hell would have said if I had known my days in heaven were numbered.
Had I know that I would be cast out so soon, I would have worshipped her the way she deserves.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“It's impossible to change people who have their mind set on who they are. You can't support them enough to make up for their low expectation, and you can't love them enough to make up for the hate they feel for themselves. It's a losing battle, and finally after all this time, I am ready to surrender.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“It's not so easy to walk away from someone when he has made his way into every cell, when he has taken over every thought, and he has been responsible for the best and worst feelings I've ever had. no one, not even the doubting part of me, can make me feel bad for loving passionately and hoping desperately that I could have that great love that I've read about in novels.”
― Anna Todd, After We Collided

“You won’t know how lucky you are to be able to spend your life with the other half of your soul until you have to spend your life without them.”
― Anna Todd, After Ever Happy

“A happy Atlas was near mind-blowing. It made me want to uncover every single thing about this world that he likes and give it all to him.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost- like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Don't care too much. 2. Shut up. Everything unfortunate that has ever happened to me has stemmed from failure to follow one of the rules.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods”
― John Green

“i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed — instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?
no, i couldn't say any of this. because, when it ll comes down to it, nobody wants to hear it, no matter how much they like you or love you, they don't want to hear it.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.”
― James Frey

“Help. It was the sort of word that was usually screamed. It was the sort of need that usually required screaming. People yelled help when there was a fire or they were injured or someone was attacking them. Other people responded quickly and efficiently to this yelling. But a whispered help, that was different. Whispered helps are full of secrets and shameful desperation. Rather than halve the burden, a whispered help will divide the crisis and let it gain strength and complexity: a sort of emotional mitosis. Not unlike passing a disease on to the one trying to save you. And if nothing would change as a result of the whisper anyway, if all it would do is bring about the inevitable outcome, only sooner, then why bother? Better just to fall down and wait, isn’t it?”
― Dianne Touchell, A Small Madness

“I fell in love with you again while you were away,”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“It was an evening of that feeling you wanted to bottle, the feeling that no drug or orgasm could replicate - the skyrocketing high of limerence. I was delighted by everything: the way he paused to think before answering any question, as if whether or not he liked pickles was worthy of deep contemplation; the way he laughed loudly at my offhand jokes; the way his chest looked in his button-down shirt. And he delighted equally in me. It was delightful to be delighted in. By the time we made it back to his apartment, which was just a short walk away, it was not a question of whether the night was ending but, rather, where were we going next. The idea of parting was simply unthinkable. When I gathered my things to return home forty-eight hours later, he seemed adorably confused. "Where are you going?" he asked. "Home." I laughed. "I've been here two nights. How long did you think I would stay?" He looked at me as if it was the strangest thing I'd ever said. "Pippa," he said, "I thought you'd stay forever.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Soulmate

“The sensation startled me. I'd never felt like this about anyone before. My ex? No. I could hardly remember his face.”
― Joan Lowery Nixon, Whispers from the Dead

“From the beginning, we've been on the same page about pretty much everything in our lives. I mean the big shit and the insignificant shit; we're just always dialed into the same frequency. Whether it's where we want to live, people we like, people we don't like, our favorite restaurants, our expectations from each other, how we spend our free time, favorite food, favorite places to ski, fuckin' everything. More important, I think, is our dedication to making every day and every activity into a date with each other. Every night when we cooked dinner and set the table, every night we watched a movie, every time we took the dog for a walk through our old neighborhood in Denver, every weekend hike, every minute working in the garden, even when we'd have fifteen minutes before work to wolf down a bagel, we did everything deliberately together, as though it were planned a year in advance. I don't know how many people have experienced a relationship like that, but I figured it made me the luckiest guy on the planet.”
― Harrison Query, Old Country

“That is when it happened. A soft white glow gathered on his chest, over the place where his heart must be. The glow became a cord, reaching out through the air. I felt the light encircle my neck, link me to his heart. It didn't hurt. It bound us together. I don't know if he felt it too - I like to think he did.”
― Catriona Ward, The Last House on Needless Street