Elena > Elena's Quotes

“By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!”
― John Green

“Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”
― John Green

“Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.”
― John Green

“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.”
― John Green

“Her hair is ridiculous," I said.

"I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.”
― john green

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.”
― Mary Stewart, The Stormy Petrel

“True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.”
― Rosalind Miles, Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle

“I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“Now is the time to become a myth.”
― diane von furstenberg

“I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.”
― Arthur Wellesley Wellington

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

“No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now!”
― Tricia Cunningham, The Reverse Diet: Lose 20, 50, 100 Pounds or More by Eating Dinner for Breakfast and Breakfast for Dinner

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman Ruth

“If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.”
― Robert Elias M.D.

“Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
― Dr. Seuss

“A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.”
― Emilie Autumn

“Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Idler; Poems