Katie > Katie's Quotes

“They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.”
― Tallulah Bankhead

“We've all been burned before. It doesn't mean you stop living.”
― Beth Orsoff

“It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.”
― Nancy Thayer

“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
― Tupac Shakur

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.”
― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

“I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.”
― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

“I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.”
― Susane Colasanti, When It Happens

“We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won't let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world.
If you're lucky enough to find this person, never let them go.”
― Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer

“It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.”
― Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer

“We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.”
― Susane Colasanti, Something Like Fate

“Not even a repeat of Dawson’s Creek makes me feel better.”
― Susane Colasanti

“You healed my heart and taught me that forgiveness is about love. I used to think that any man of mine had to live up to a list of my expectations. I was wrong. Love has no list. You are the pinch in my heart. The catch in my breath. The reason my stomach tumbles and why I lie awake at night just to look at you. And every time I look at you, I know that I want to look at you forever”
― Rachel Gibson, Any Man of Mine

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table. I want to be one of those old couples you see still holding hands and laughing after fifty years of marriage. That's what I want. I want to be someone's forever.”
― Rachel Gibson, The Trouble With Valentine's Day

“...Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Hot Shot

“That's when I realized that part of me would probably always be lost in the past. That just seemed to be my personality: I was the one who couldn't stand change.”
― Beth Harbison, Always Something There to Remind Me

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“It's when I'm standing six feet away from you and not being able to find the words to tell you how much I love you and how much I miss you that I want to just scream to the whole room that I'm still in love with you. It's when I'm sitting alone with the phone in my hand dialing your number and hanging up that I would trade a thousand tomorrows for just one yesterday. Then I could just call you to tell you goodnight. It's when I am really sad about something and need someone to talk to that I realize you're the only one who really knew me at all. It's when I cry myself to sleep at night and it hits me how much I would give to hold you at that very moment. It's when I think about you that I realize no one else in the world is meant for me.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.”
― Andy Stanley, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You