Beatrice Nicolas > Beatrice's Quotes

“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”
― Meg Cabot

“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
― Gillian Anderson

“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Your eyelashes make mine want to commit suicide from shame.”
― Kasie West, Pivot Point

“Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I am so sick of you pulling this Batman shit on me!”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. 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 hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

“I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“Why does it say she has three hundred and twenty friends?" Josh asks. "Who has that many friends?”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“What the hell happened to Pluto?!”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?"

"It was love because it was worth it.”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“Those are some strong currents you're swimming against.”
― Jay Asher, The Future of Us

“Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It's so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn't have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“We both got our Point Zero wishes―each other. He said he wished for me every time.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.
"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Demon pox, oh, demon pox,
Just how is it acquired?
One must go down to the bad part of town
Until one is very tired.
Demon pox, oh, demon pox I had it all along—
No, not the pox, you foolish blocks,
I mean this very song—
For I was right, and you were wrong!”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“Ah,” said a voice from the doorway, “having your annual ‘everyone thinks Will is a lunatic’ meeting, are you?
“It’s biannual,” said Jem. “And no, this is not that meeting.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince