Cindy > Cindy's Quotes

“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“I’d chosen the regret I could live with best, that’s all.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“I know that people change. I thought ... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“I really am happy for Kiley. And for you and every other happily married lady. Except for that I'm not happy for you. I kind of want you all to drop dead.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more."
"That sounds excruciating.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“But the aching faded, too. Things get better - hurt less - over time. If you let them.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“I told him that I didn't want magic, that I wanted someone who wouldn't leave me if he could. Who wouldn't feel being committed to me was such a burden.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“I choose you over everyone.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I don't have to forgive you," Cath said. "It's not like that with you. You're just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“If you really love someone,' Claudia continued, 'you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Quick, make a wish.
Take a (second or third or fourth) chance.
Remake the world.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“There should be a horn or gong or something to wake God. Because I’d like to have a word with him. Three words actually: WHAT THE FUCK?!”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“She's a people-mechanic and always knows when I'm malfunctioning.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I have an allergy to catching and throwing and kicking and dribbling of any kind. Noah is not a team player. Well, duh. Revolutionaries aren’t team players.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I understand the quicksand of shame.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Before leaving school I consorted with The Oracle: Google.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I'm filled with something I can only describe as recognition. Not because he looks familiar on the outside this time, but because he feels familiar on the inside.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I have tried to let you go and I cannot. I cannot stop thinking of you. I cannot stop dreaming about you.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus