Kaye > Kaye's Quotes

“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair.
He looks about eight years old.
His ears have tripled in size.
Everyone's started calling him Dumbo.
Which wouldn't be so bad,
except they've started calling me
Mrs. Dumbo.

You can't even tell
he's got curly hair anymore.
There's nothing left
to run my fingers through.
Just this weird
blond AstroTurf
sprouting out of his skull.”
― Sonya Sones, What My Mother Doesn't Know

“I know this sounds incredibly lame,
but I don't want losing my virginity
to feel like I'm losing something.
I want it to feel like I'm finding something.
I want sex to be amazing.
I want it to be life-alteringly wonderful.
And I want it to happen with someone I love.”
― Sonya Sones, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

“Culture Clash

Dylan says
when I meet his mother today
I shouldn't mention
that I'm Jewish.

I say
okay, but can I
tell her about
the HIV postive thing?

He gives me a look.
I give him one back”
― Sonya Sones, What My Mother Doesn't Know

“There’s something
so great about this,” she whispers.
About what?” I whisper back.

About this,” she whispers.
About being outlaws.
It’s just you and me—against the world.”
― Sonya Sones

“We've turned off all the lights
in the living room
to make hand shadows.

We've got this
big flashlight
aimed at the wall.

I make the silhouette of my hand
into a duck.
Robin makes his into a rabbit.

Now my duck kisses his rabbit
And-POOF!- it turns into
a turkey.

And for some reason
this strikes us
as hysterically funny.

But you probably had to be there.”
― Sonya Sones, What My Mother Doesn't Know

“Madame V
begins the lesson
by reading aloud the first stanza
of a famous French poem:


Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui penetre mon coeur?


Then she looks up
and without any warning
she calls on me to translate it.
I swallow hard, and try:

"It's raining in my heart
like it's raining in the city.
What is this sadness
that pierces my heart?"

Saying these words out loud,
right in front of the whole class,
makes me feel
like I'm not wearing any clothes.”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“Walking with Murphy
through the bone-freezing chill
toward the bus stop,
I start shivering.

And somehow,
when he slips his arm around me
to warm me up,
it feels right.

Righter than anything ever has.”
― Sonya Sones

“Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They're very straightforward. Unlike people.”
― Joy Fielding, Lost

“No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.”
― Joy Fielding, Lost

“Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.”
― James Patterson, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

“Life goes on, so should you.”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“Sometimes mistakes could be turned into something unexpected and wonderful.”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“You didn't bury bodies and dig them up years later. It was best to take the same approach with memories”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“Everyone has a purpose.”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“None of us are good at being real.”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“If you were sane enough to recognize you were crazy, how crazy could you really be?”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“People didn't want the truth about the other side. They just wanted hope.”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“There must be a very good reason why you're still here, because there are thousand reasons why you shouldn't be.”
― T. L. Hines, Waking Lazarus

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe