Marilyn Pate > Marilyn's Quotes

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
― Doris Lessing

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”
― Sarah Dessen

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.”
― Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”
― Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Your sibling, after all, is the only other person in the world who understands how fucked up your parents made you.”
― Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
― Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.”
― Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“The six rules of maybe
1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it.
2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go.
3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way
4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others
5. Persist, if necessary
6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and
let go?”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.”
― Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“The hurt affects your ability to go forward.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.”
― Deb Caletti, The Story of Us

“Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.”
― Deb Caletti, The Last Forever

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion