Amber Bailey > Amber's Quotes

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“People are a lot more knowable than they think they are.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It's time you'll never get back, Marianne adds. I mean, the time is real. The money is also real. Well, but the time is more real. Time consists of physics, money is just a social construct.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You will one day experience joy that matches this pain. You will cry euphoric tears at the Beach Boys, you will stare down at a baby’s face as she lies asleep in your lap, you will make great friends, you will eat delicious foods you haven’t tried yet, you will be able to look at a view from a high place and not assess the likelihood of dying from falling. There are books you haven’t read yet that will enrich you, films you will watch while eating extra-large buckets of popcorn, and you will dance and laugh and have sex and go for runs by the river and have late-night conversations and laugh until it hurts. Life is waiting for you. You might be stuck here for a while, but the world isn’t going anywhere. Hang on in there if you can. Life is always worth it.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Remember no one really cares what you look like. They care what they look like. You are the only person in the world to have worried about your face.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Often, what you worry other people might be thinking of you is what”
― Sarah Pinborough, Dead to Her

“if a man were looking contemplative or perplexed, would another man say to him ‘cheer up, mate, might never happen’? Would he be instructed to smile? No, he bloody well would not.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet

“I didn’t understand how people could hurt any animals, but especially dogs. They were too good for us. Humans didn’t deserve the love and loyalty dogs gave them.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“God, I loved this dog. She was my baby.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“A small smile touched Rhys’s lips. “I always knew you would make a great queen.” “I’m not queen yet.” “You don’t need a crown to be queen, princess.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“Croissants were a gift of heaven. I was sure of it.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies

“I know,” I said. I couldn’t believe I’d sunk to conversing with plants, but here we were. “I miss her too.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies

“I didn’t understand why someone would bring a dog or cat into their home, treat it like their child, and love it for years when they knew that animal’s lifespan was so much shorter than their own. It was like they were asking for their heart to be broken. Now, I understand. It’s because the time they spent together was worth the heartbreak.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies

“People would count these restarts as failures, but I think they built character.”
― Lauren Asher, Throttled

“But me? I prefer a cozy life of snuggling up with a good book or a new TV show.”
― Lauren Asher, Throttled

“If it were another life, I’d probably do right by you. I’d take you on dates and try harder. But that’s not who I am or how I was raised. I don’t know how to be the kind of emotional guy you desire.”
― Lauren Asher, Throttled

“What’s your favorite book?” Doubt colors my voice. “If you have a favorite, I don’t trust you. Any book lover has at least five they can name off the top of their head.” His blue eyes hold mine.”
― Lauren Asher, Collided

“A man who prefers to live in a fantasy. How cute.” “I’d be your best fantasy, no book needed.”
― Lauren Asher, Collided

“Everyone knows the books are better than the movies or TV shows.” “Says who?” “Says everyone who reads books!”
― Lauren Asher, Collided

“You like spending time with your books more than you like spending time with me.”
― Freida McFadden, The Teacher

“I can look back now over our life and see it in traces of everything. Good and bad. Great and terrible. Bit of a short straw to call it a disorder, I think. It’s a shit hat to make her wear all the time because she’s got the best brain in the world, I love how she looks at everything, how she sees it all—I don’t even mind the part where she just says whatever the fuck floats into her head at any given moment—the only part of it that I struggle with these day—all days, I s’pose—is the future myopia.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“He lets out my favourite laugh that feels like a cup of tea on a rainy day,”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“Really striking, funny. Daddy issues …” “Yeah, but—” I shrug. “Who doesn’t have those?”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“Food, she can control. She’s controlled food for a long time. An easy thing for her to both demonise and weaponise against the actual thing she’s actually afraid of.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark

“She’s the only home I’ve ever been interested in having. Her body is the walls, heart’s the ceiling. I’ll live here forever.”
― Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark