Vicky Vaughn > Vicky's Quotes

“Some scars are carved into our bones - a part of who we are, shaping what we become.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Daughter of the Moon Goddess

“It's hard to get caught if you aren't in possession of what you stole when they catch you.”
― Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

“A dead lover can never break your heart.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.”
― Jon Scieszka, The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

“One of the greatest gifts to give in a relationship is something very small that costs you nothing.”
― Lucy Score, The Worst Best Man

“You don't owe anyone your whole story.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“For all stories have an ending as well as a beginning. But a beginning is where you choose to plant your foot, and the ending is only the edge of one's own knowledge.”
― Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

“She didn’t care to be a sunflower, unfurling her petals in the daylight for all to see. She would rather be an adorable little mushroom, thriving in the dark crevices where few ventured to look.”
― Adalyn Grace, Foxglove

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Mourning is sometimes a dull ache that won’t leave, and other times it’s like pricking your finger on a needle hidden in a shopping bag.”
― Steve Cavanagh, Kill for Me Kill for You

“It seemed to her that the people who had decided all birth mothers were regretful and unhappy and had been forced to do something they didn’t want to do were probably men.”
― Laurie Frankel, Family Family

“He clicked this tongue to the roof of this mouth, studying me for a moment, his eyes a shade darker than they had been before. "I think your favorite color is yellow," he guessed, and watched as the surprise trickled across my face. "But not a bright yellow - more of a golden yellow. The color of sunflowers. That might be your favorite flower.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Hearing Sloane and Arthur talk about books was like listening to a song in another language. The message didn’t always make it through, but that didn’t mean I couldn’t appreciate the melody.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“You, my girl, are whoever you decide to be. But I hope you always keep some piece of that girl who sat by the window, hoping for the best. Life’s short enough without us talking ourselves out of hope and trying to dodge every bad feeling. Sometimes you have to push through the discomfort, instead of running.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“We don't have control if bad things happen to us or those we love. But we can choose what to do with ourselves after they happen.”
― Kindra Neely, Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

“Your husband is not going to take care of you the way you think,” Phoebe says. “Nobody can take care of you the way you need to take care of yourself. It’s your job to take care of yourself like that.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“People always say that your wedding day is the happiest day of your life, but honestly, people should try solving murders more often.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“I sometimes think this country is an eternal battle between our best and our worst angels. Hopefully we're listening to the good angel more often that the bad one.”
― Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts:”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“The problem with so many people you encounter in life is that they're being the version of themselves they think they should be rather than the person they actually are.”
― Kirsty Greenwood, The Love of My Afterlife

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.”
― Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

“Loving can hurt, and I want to do it anyway.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“You don't have to be completely healed to be everything I want. To be mine. I want every part of you, you silly infuriating woman. I love the parts of you I haven't even met yet.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The most painful part of living is the fact that little by little, our family and friends leave us, and then, in the end, it is our turn. We all have to say goodbye to everything we’ve ever known.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Kitchen Front

“In any case, bees know that everything will work itself out. You have to remember that. Whatever happens in life, everything will be all right in the end.”
― Jennifer Ryan, The Kitchen Front

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows