Vicky > Vicky's Quotes

“Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.”
― Miranda July , The First Bad Man

“Your most casual encounter could lead to something bigger, so treat those interactions with that level of respect.”
― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance: An Investigation

“Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Don’t you ever think about that? What if this isn’t the end and we just go on to a place even worse than this one?”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Promise you won't hate me when you find out who I've been.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Money is wasted on the rich.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“It’s amazing what the living expect of the dying.”
― Meghan Daum, The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.”
― Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

“You can't live in fear of something as basic as fire.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you’d crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life