Maria Janella > Maria Janella's Quotes

“Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”
― Colleen Hoover, Confess

“I couldn't wait to see then again, beautiful things. Extraordinary.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“That's what love is, love is keeping the promise anyway. Don't you believe in true love?”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I just can't believe that life would give us to each other and then take it back.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

“I still search for you in crowds,
in empty fields and soaring clouds.
In city lights and passing cars,
on winding roads and wishing stars.”
― Lang Leav, Lullabies (Volume 2)

“I'm not even mine anymore. I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegance and euphoria," and how it describes exactly what I feel with Violet.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether?”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I love: the way her eyes spark when we're talking or when she's telling me something she wants me to know, the way she mouths the words herself when she's reading and concentrating, the way she looks at me as if there's only me, as if she can past the flesh and bone and bullshit right into the me that's there, the one I don't even see myself.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I try not feel jealous of the fact that he's been checking in with them but not me. After all, they're his family. I'm only me, the most important person in his life, for a while at least.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”
― Jennifer Niven

“Light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Gravity is our playmate, momentum is our friend. We are blurs of motion. We are racing, and we are both winning, because we do not race each other.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“We race the world, and as fast as it rotates, as fast at it revolves, we are faster.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“It's only when I'm awake that I think about dying.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“When I crash, I will be inertia mass acceleration force gravity opposite equal everything. I will be nothing.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“It's never too late to change. Every day is a blank page, and your story has yet to be written.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“There's more to life than cause and effect.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You