Lacey > Lacey's Quotes

“he's a story i want to know from page one ”
― sara zarr

“and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. ”
― sara zarr

“Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.”
― Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

“it's funny how you can't exactly pick your crush. well, you can, but once it get hold of you, it's hard to shake off. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Other Half of Me

“maybe one of the reasons i don't express myself as well as i want to is because inside, shoved way down into an unseen pit, i'm not sure of what i want. ”
― Emily Franklin, The Other Half of Me

“so often my own emotions were hidden not only from other people but from myself. or perhaps it was the other way round: i was hiding from them. ”
― Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street

“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life”
― Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street

“loves was about the people who loved you”
― Margot Livesey, The House on Fortune Street

“i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite. ”
― Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot

“when i felt bobby staring at me, i looked up. our eyes met, and he held my gaze; he held my gaze like he was holding me, and i held him as though holding him. then he looked away, he was gone and it was over - a one-minute stand. ”
― Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot

“What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room. ”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“But in my defense, I knew enough about her to know I wanted to know everything else; I knew as much about her as she wanted me to know; I knew as much about her as anyone ever knows about anyone. And isn't love just curiosity at the beginning anyway?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.”
― Gabrielle Zevin

“Sometimes things seem so unbearable in the middle of the night, don't they? In the middle of the night, we're all such children.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people die. It al ends happily or it all ends sadly, and the difference matters only to the people involved.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

“In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown