Lisa > Lisa's Quotes

“You've already made me cry countless times." I raised my middle finger to him slowly, and asked, "Do you know what this is?" I took my middle finger and patted the corner of my eye with it. "It's me, wiping away the last tear you'll ever get.”
― Penelope Douglas, Bully

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

“Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
― Emile Zola

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“I think I’m finally starting to realize that love isn’t about fixing things or people. It’s about sticking around when things can’t be fixed.”
― Cassia Leo, Abandon

“But it’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.”
― Cassia Leo, Abandon

“Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.”
― Cassia Leo, Bring Me Home

“Serenity, I am unable to wear panties.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Holding on to Heaven

“Experiencing what we did with Lucifer taught me so much. Things I will take with me forever, even when my human life is over. I’ve seen the dark side of life now. How one single event can change the course of forever and turn you into something you never believed you could be. It's what you do when you notice the change that matters.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Holding on to Heaven

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“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

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“I don't know what the hell is going on with me and this girl, but every single time I'm around her, it's like I lose my shit.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“He might have gotten his way in the hallway earlier, but now he's on my turf. He isn't gonna push me around.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Count on Me

“I know I'm probably the last person you want to see right now, but I thought if I sat on your porch, you wouldn't be scared. You wouldn't be alone.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I didn’t know enough to dream you, Bree, but somehow you came true anyway. How did that happen?” He rubbed his nose along mine, pausing and then pulling back again. “Who read my mind and knew exactly what I wanted, even when I didn’t?”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”
― Mia Sheridan, Archer's Voice

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World