Mer > Mer's Quotes

“And home was where you planted flowers in the expectation that you would be there to see them bloom year after year.”
― Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining

“When you love a man, you are in his power.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once. ”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“One of the worst parts about someone dying is thinking back to all those times you didn’t ask the right questions, all those times you stupidly assumed you’d have all the time in the world. And this too: how all that time feels like not much time at all.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“Nothing leveled a man quite like being unable to protect his woman.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, The Leopard Prince

“As if she’d merely sleepwalked through everything else in her life prior to his arrival.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, The Serpent Prince

“If you let true love escape you, all for the sake of your worldly fame, one day you will wake up and realize you are no better than I - a blind, bloody fool.”
― Gaelen Foley, The Duke

“Tears are kind of like urine. There is only so long you can hold them in.”
― Julie Buxbaum, Tell Me Three Things

“I'm not used to people saying exactly what they think. Filtered talk is as popular as filtered water these days.”
― Willow Aster, True Love Story

“All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.”
― Maggie Osborne, Silver Lining

“How do you react when a face you have touched with your hands, your mouth, eyes you have memorized, imagined, stared into, watched watching you—how do you react when it’s become the face of a stranger?”
― Cathleen Davitt Bell, I Remember You

“And this is the part they don’t tell you about losing a loved one to cancer: They’re not the only people being eaten alive. When they get it, you get it. The cancer nibbles away at your time with them, feasts on the happy moments, feeds off every second of bliss. It devours your paycheck and savings. It nourishes itself on your misery and multiplies in your chest, even if you don’t have it.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“We were both drowning, and when we were together, it felt like I was coming up for air.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“He loved her so much he never wanted to say goodbye to her. He wanted to leave with her.”
― Layla Hagen, Withering Hope

“Love has an effect few other things have: to empower you with happiness, and at the same time, strip you of all power, making you a prisoner of fear.”
― Layla Hagen, Withering Hope

“I used to believe that the experiences life throws at us shape us. Now I think that it's the way we cope with what life throws our way that shapes us.”
― Layla Hagen, Withering Hope

“How lucky to be the one who leaves, and not the one who's left behind.”
― Layla Hagen, Withering Hope

“She didn’t look busy or thoughtful or otherwise occupied with an agenda. She was just … there. And even now, when I think of what the word “friend” means, I remember Rosemary waiting for me that day. Her knowing to come, even when I hadn’t asked. Even when things between us were strained.”
― Cathleen Davitt Bell, I Remember You

“You were always mine. -Black”
― L.J. Shen, Vicious

“Grandmama said that the cherry blossom was life. Sweet and beautiful, but so darn short. Too short not to do what you wanna do. Too short to not spend it with the people…you love.”
― L.J. Shen, Vicious

“This is why humans invented lies, I thought. No other animal in nature lies. The truth is ruthless. It cuts you open, shoving your face into the mud. It forces you to look reality in the eye and deal with it. To feel the real weight of the world that you live in.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“No love is fully requited. No love is equal. No love is fair. There is always one side that loves more. And you better not be that side—because it suffers.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“We were entwined and entangled, connected with invisible strings, each of us trying to pull away, only to create more knots that made us closer.”
― L.J. Shen, The Kiss Thief

“Finding happiness as an intelligent person was like finding a real-life unicorn.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“All true meanings are hidden. Life is full of secrets, and narrow-minded people, and sugar-coated, empty conversations that hold no weight. What’s real is what’s inside us. What’s important is what we feel.”
― L.J. Shen, Midnight Blue

“But falling into the wrong hands is just as bad as crashing into nothing.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“Organs, Jude, are like people. They need company, a backup to rely on. That’s why we have lungs, tonsils, hands, legs, fingers, toes, eyes, nostrils, teeth, and lips. Only the heart works alone. Like Atlas, it carries the weight of our existence on its shoulders quietly, only rebelling when disturbed by love.”
― L.J. Shen, Dirty Headlines

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale