Allyson Maclay > Allyson's Quotes

“No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I wasn't a stranger to dealing with thirty-plus-year-old adolescents”
― Terri Anne Browning, The Rockers' Babies

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Do you ever just put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that's what love is like; everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you just keep going.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Sometimes , Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning -Will Traynor <3”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with your ridiculous clothes and your bad jokes and your complete inability to ever hide a single thing you felt. You changed my life so much more than this money will ever change yours.

Don’t think of me too often. I don’t want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well.

Just live.

Love,

Will”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“If you are good life is good.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.”
― Roald Dahl, Matilda

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“He said I was his heart, and you don’t leave your heart behind. You can’t live without your heart.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.”
― Katie Ashley, The Proposal

“Just remember that forgiveness is so much easier than regret.”
― Katie Ashley, Music of the Heart

“I'm cute, Mommy's cute, and Daddy's..." She tore her gaze up to meet his.
"Daddy's lucky," he finished for her.”
― Katie Ashley, The Proposal

“Life is hard, but it's even harder when you don't wanna face it.”
― Katie Ashley, Don't Hate the Player...Hate the Game