Angie > Angie's Quotes

“I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works.”
― Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah

“I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.”
― Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“There are some losses we never get over.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“It's easy to talk about things we hate, but sometimes it's hard to explain exactly why we like something.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time. ”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“What do you say to someone who is not the same and yet completely the same?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“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

“There are some people in life that you can't get over.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

“I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“In three words I can sum up all that I've learned about: It goes on.”
― Jessi Kirby, Golden

“Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
― Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

“It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

“Things get better — hurt less — over time. If you let them.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts

“Just because the situation turned out kind of messed up doesn't mean that my memories aren't valid," he says. "They're still true,still real.”
― Melissa C. Walker, Unbreak My Heart

“That was the thing about pictures. No matter how beautiful, they couldn't capture the truly felt parts of a moment.”
― Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts