Sabrina K > Sabrina's Quotes

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“But she liked this man’s quirks and imperfections, the lack of playboy smarts coupled with a quiet intelligence.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“There was no one in the world that was ever as critical or could make me feel as hideous as my mother, but there was no one, not even Peter, who ever made me feel as beautiful.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“No one should marry the person who makes them happy. Marry the person you want by your side at your absolute lowest point.”
― Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Didn’t you just tell me that people can change? You can change.”
I hadn’t the first clue what she was talking about. I changed all the time. I was flexible. I bent. I had changed little by little, steadily over the years, until by all accounts I was a person who should have been unrecognizable but to me was just who I was. I ought to have been a stranger to myself, but it didn’t bother me at all.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“Everything smelled like sex, and coffee, and Christmas, and I didn't want it to end.”
― Sierra Simone, A Merry Little Meet Cute

“It was the cruelest thing about bipolar disorder, I thought; there was never one thing that worked forever. No one med, no one dose, no one routine. My mom said it was like walking on a rope bridge, where every step was slightly different from the last and sometimes you had to stop and just hold on until you could find your balance again. But she also liked to remind me that sometimes the views from her bridge were incredible too.”
― Julie Murphy, A Merry Little Meet Cute

“Hers was tougher than tough love. It was brutal, industrial-strength. A sinewy love that never gave way to an inch of weakness. It was a love that saw what was best for you ten steps ahead, and didn't care if it hurt like hell in the meantime. When I got hurt, she felt it so deeply, it was as though it were her own affliction. She was guilty only of caring too much. I realize this now, only in retrospect. No one in this would would ever love me as much as my mother, and she would never let me forget it.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Food was how my mother expressed her love. No matter how critical or cruel she could seem—constantly pushing me to meet her intractable expectations—I could always feel her affection radiating from the lunches she packed and the meals she prepared for me just the way I liked them.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Jonathan's face is absolutely thunderous. It's like he wants to fire everyone in the room but can't because they're his family and that's not how it works.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“Gollum starts rubbing himself all over Jonathan's legs.
Jonathon looks down in a bit of a panic. "What's it doing?"
"Scent marking. He owns you now."
"He does not."
"You'll have to take that up with him."
...
"Can you make it stop?"
"Liking you? Give it time. He'll work it out.”
― Alexis Hall, 10 Things That Never Happened

“Her sadness had changed her into another woman altogether; it had wearied her and it had also blossomed her.”
― Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

“Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right.”
― Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch

“Thank you for coming but kindly remove your crazy asses from our holy ground.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“The walls of the house were bleeding again.
This sort of thing could be expected; it was, after all, September.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble.”
― Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

“They used to call her a witch because she knew more than she should.”
― Ramona Emerson, Shutter

“Sometimes she craved a little danger. And that was why she had book club.”
― Grady Hendrix, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

“I think,” Juna says after a pause, “that the thing about losing someone isn’t the loss but the absence of afterwards. D’you know what I mean? The endlessness of that.” She looks sideways at me and sniffs. “My friends were sad, people who knew my sister were sad, but everyone moves on after a month. It’s all they can manage. It doesn’t mean they weren’t sad, just that things keep going or something, I don’t know.” She rolls her shoulder, shakes her head. “It’s hard when you look up and realise that everyone’s moved off and left you in that place by yourself. Like they’ve all gone on and you’re there still, holding on to this person you’re supposed to let go of.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Goddamn it, Frederika.”
― Carissa Orlando, The September House

“Neither of you really gave a shit about me except as a conduit for the feelings you weren’t going to talk about.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“The only good thing about losing everything, is the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“We are constantly producing the past. We are factories for the past. Living past-making machines, what else? We eat time and produce the past. Even death doesn’t put a stop to this. A person might be gone, but his past remains.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter