Diana > Diana's Quotes

“Don't you ever get sad?' she asked.
"Sad? No, but what's the point of sadness. It's not like is makes you feel better or changes anything."
'No one chooses to be sad, Dylan.'
"Yeah, but you can choose not to be.”
― Jessica Bucher, The Hereafter

“The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“The story of America is one that is still being written. Many of the ideological battles we like to think we've tucked neatly into a folder called "the past" -issues of race, class, gender, sexual identity, civil rights, justice, and just what makes us "American" -are very much alive today. For what we do not study and reflect upon, we are in danger of dismissing or forgetting. What we forget, we are often doomed to repeat. Our ghost, it seems, are always with us, whispering that attention must be paid.”
― Libba Bray

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“To those who will see, the world waits.”
― Libba Bray

“I read; I travel; I become”
― Derek Walcott

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”
― Susan Sontag

“No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world.”
― Terri Irwin, MY STEVE

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
― Miriam Adeney

“As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.”
― Siddhārtha Gautama

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
― John Muir

“Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.”
― Joanna Lumley

“This is what I came up with: My mother is not only presenting me an opportunity to love unconditionally, she’s also allowing me to practice being comfortable with what is uncomfortable. To grieve and also embrace what is broken. To know that some days I can receive who my mother is now and some days I struggle with it. To allow that two opposing thoughts may exist in my head at the same time.”
― Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Where the Light Gets In: Losing My Mother Only to Find Her Again

“I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“If you're always negative and angry, looking for the bad, then the only person you're really hurting is yourself.”
― Melissa A. Hanson, A Healing Spirit

“We're more than our mistakes. We're more than what people expect of us.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it”
― Libba Bray, Lair of Dreams

“Don't settle to be something someone else wants you to be.”
― Jessica Bucher, The Hereafter

“There comes a time in a girl’s life when she has to reach deep down into her soul, clear the pathways of her inner goddess, and let out her nuclear Satan.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Mother Road

“Yes, I'm being a total girl right now, but you know what? I don't care, because guess what? If you look down my pants and up my shirt, you would find a vagina and a pair of boobs, making me very much a girl, and because I have to deal with my uterus committing suicide every month, I should be able to have girl moments.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Mother Road

“sometimes you have to live your life with the motto...#NoRegrets. Sometimes you have to ignore the way people perceive you and do what you feel is right.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Mother Road

“life isn't worth living if you never put your heart on the line, if you don't try new things. Pain can be short-lived, 'could have beens' will live with you forever. Don't live your life in a bowl full of regrets, because you're scared of the unknown.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Mother Road

“Every person needs a moment in their life of total insanity. A time where there is nothing else you can do but snap in half, wave your arms in the air, and run around like a crazy person, tongue hanging out and insanity in you eyes.”
― Meghan Quinn, The Mother Road

“It’s always easy to blame other people for holding you back. But sometimes, the only person holding you back is . . . well . . . you.”
― David Levithan, Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

“I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Why do they even call it that, "saving yourself"? Like we need to be rescued from sex? It's not like virgins spend their whole lives engaged in the sacred ceremony of "being saved" from intercourse.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything