Wendy > Wendy 's Quotes

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

“What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“I wanted to make sure you were fine...and that he was okay, too. You didn't, like, stab the boy, did you? I mean, I totally disapprove of murdering hotties, but if you need help burying the body, you know I'll bring the shovel.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
― Katherine Anne Porter

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“Todos los "no puedo", tienen el mismo origen: un fracaso no superado.”
― Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, Los ojos de mi princesa

“¿Se puede disfrutar lo que nos hace sufrir? - con frecuencia el amor es asi.”
― Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez, Los ojos de mi princesa

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“When I walked into your room and sat down beside you on the bed, I felt it.
I felt you give me a piece of your heart.
And Sydney, I wanted it. I wanted your heart more than I've ever wanted anything. The second I reached down and held your hand in mine, it happened. My heart made its choice, and it chose you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“You smell good, too,” said Patch

It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

Naked. I know the drill.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“I don't go out with strangers," I said.

"Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“I got schooled this year
by
a
boy.

A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in love with.
And he taught me the most important thing of all...

To put the emphasis
On life .”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“I live you, Sky," he says against my lips. "I live you so much.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris