Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
― James A. Baldwin

“I do not love you except because I love you;
I go from loving to not loving you,
From waiting to not waiting for you
My heart moves from cold to fire.

I love you only because it's you the one I love;
I hate you deeply, and hating you
Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you
Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

In this part of the story I am the one who
Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood.”
― Pablo Neruda

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.”
― S. Weir Mitchell

“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.”
― Eudora Welty

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

“But you see, the measure of hell you're able to endure is the measure of your love.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Walk on with hope in your heart,
and you'll never walk alone”
― Shah Rukh Khan

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”
― Walter Benjamin

“While the heart beats, hope lingers.”
― Alison Croggon

“I want him to love me as much as I love him.”
― L.J. Smith, The Awakening

“The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.”
― Amy Gatliff

“God dances with the outcast.”
― Steven James, How to Smell Like God: True Stories Burning With the Scent of Heaven

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.”
― Jodi Picoult

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
― William Jennings Bryan

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle