Greta > Greta's Quotes

“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“She is carrying herself through the day, and it’s not an easy task.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I am starting to get tired of relying on words.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“I never said I was good,” he told her, taking the pen. “Just that I liked doing it.”
“That’s the best kind of good.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like

“He hadn't realized how much it could mean, having someone to talk to like that; he hadn't realized that it could be a kind of lifeline, and that without it, there would be nobody to save you if you started to drown.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?”
― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Now smile a real smile for me so I know you`re not suffering inside.”
― Kevin Henkes, Olive's Ocean

“As she wove in and out of all the people - rushing, talking, eating, laughing; some in clumps, some alone - she realized that no one, no one at all in the airport, or on the entire planet for that matter, knew her thoughts, knew what she was carrying inside her head and heart. And at that very minute, what was inside her head and heart made her feel as though there was no one else in the whole world she would rather be.”
― Kevin Henkes, Olive's Ocean

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“Whatever you decide, don't let it be because you don't think you have a choice.”
― Hannah Harrington, Saving June

“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.”
― John Green, Paper Towns