Kimberly Young > Kimberly's Quotes

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...
But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.
You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“‪Your life is yours, singular and sacred, and you should be with the person who makes it feel that way every blessed second you live it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Crown

“It's all right to wonder.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable.”
― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“My life now consists of fragments where some are so blinding in their intensity that they make everything else indistinguishable. What shall I do with these glittering shards? There is no pattern; I can't make them fit. With each other, or with the whole that should be my life. It feels as if my existence was extinguished in a flash, and afterwards my universe became incomprehensible. Just shards and particles, which I carry with me wherever I go. They are sharp and they still hurt to touch. And they are so heavy. I know there is more - there are less intense fragments that I need to make it whole. I want to remember everything. But perhaps I need to give it more time. Allow myself some rest. Distance myself a little, to see if I can make out a pattern. And face the truth about what is really there.”
― Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika

“...I guess I've got a case of existential angst. Low blood sugar. Time on the wing. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Et cetera.”
― Daniel Hecht, Skull Session

“It made me hopefully, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.”
― Janet Fitch

“I don't let anyone touch me," I finally said.
Why not?"
Why not? Because I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them then changed their minds. Forests of boys, their ragged shrubs full of eyes following you, grabbing your breasts, waving their money, eyes already knocking you down, taking what they felt was theirs. (...) It was a play and I knew how it ended, I didn't want to audition for any of the roles. It was no game, no casual thrill. It was three-bullet Russian roulette.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“I’m burning out, John. Seriously. I don’t know if I’m up for this. I feel stretched out, like too little butter scraped over too much waffle. And then it all falls down into one of the waffle holes and there’s none left for the rest of the waffle and you sort of have to tilt it to make it run out.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

“She’s afraid of men and it’s simple, it’s rational, she’s afraid of men because men are frightening.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm

“If you were a girl it was a lot safer to be decent than to be beautiful.”
― Margaret Atwood

“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Actually one can be saddened, letting one's self into a store full of books and not being able to recognize a single one.”
― David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress

“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
― Elizabeth Kostovia, The Historian