Lily > Lily's Quotes

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used to tell us that. It's been a long time, but I can still hear her saying it.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“If you expect nothing, you aren't disappointed when you get nothing”
― J.M. Darhower

“I think you're my apple," she said quietly. "I don't regret tasting you. I can't. You're not perfect by any means—there are sweeter out there, and you have a few rotten spots—but I'd never have found a juicer apple anywhere in the world."-Serah”
― J.M. Darhower, Extinguish

“Being the first to do anything takes guts.”
― J.M. Darhower, Extinguish

“Everything changes eventually, not necessarily for the bad, but not always for the good, either”
― J.M. Darhower, Extinguish

“The world isn't always black and white. sometimes, it's gray, and sometimes that gray explodes into colors you never knew existed before.”
― J.M. Darhower

“The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist