Haley Ditt > Haley's Quotes

“If you aren't on Goodreads, you should be. I've said it before, it's like Facebook for readers on crack.”
― Colleen Hoover

“Looking at it, I got, for the first time, why people would bring flowers to sick people, stuck inside the hospital with no way to get outside. It was like bringing them a little bit of the world that was going on without them.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“Saying good-bye is basically an invitation not to see a person again. It's making it okay for that to be the last conversation you have. So if you don't say it--if you leave the conversation open--it means you'll have to see them again." ~Roger Sullivan”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
- Leonard”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“And I’ve realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn’t all we need—love is all there is.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“If you like everything, that’s basically just saying that you don’t really like anything.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“You said you didn’t want to waste your time on people who aren’t going to matter,” I said, and he nodded. “But how do you know they’re not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
- Roger Sullivan”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you."
Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. "I knew that," he murmured. "Always knew that.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“Just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“Knowing that each breath was another moment he was still here and, simultaneously, that meant that he had just moved a little closer to being gone.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“It will be scary. But I know you can do it. Know that I'll be with you, if there's any way that I can manage it. And know that I have always -and will, for always- love you.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for my real night to begin—my time with my family just something to get through as quickly as possible. And now that I knew that the time we had together was limited, I was holding on to it, trying to stretch it out, all the while wishing I’d appreciated what I’d had earlier.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“You can always find your way out, no matter how lost you are.”
― Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer

“It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went away, he waited his entire life for it to come back to him. It was more than just a comet because of what it brought to his life: direction, beauty, meaning. There are many who couldn't understand, and sometimes he walked among them. But even in his darkest hours, he knew in his heart that someday it would return to him, and his world would be whole again... And his belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning.”
― Lucas Scott

“Someone once told there's nothing wrong with fairy tales everyone ends up happily ever after in the end.”
― Peyton Sawyer