Jayden Bailey > Jayden's Quotes

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

“You never know what you have till you've lost it.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly.

And in my case, they're barely speaking.”
― Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

“We meet the people we’re supposed to when the time is just right.”
― Alyson Noel, Shadowland

“Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach. ”
― Alyson Noel, Shadowland

“Life is still life. It’s still tough, complicated, and more than a little messy, with lessons to be learned, mistakes to be made, triumphs and disappointments to be had, and not every day is meant to be a party.”
― Alyson Noel, Dark Flame

“My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.”
― Alyson Noel, Dark Flame

“That's what true love is. It cannot be broken, it cannot be chipped away, it's eternal, everlasting, and it can weather any storm.”
― Alyson Noel, Dark Flame

“Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.”
― Alyson Noel, Dark Flame

“While we may judge things as good or bad, karma doesn't. It's a simple case of like gets like, the ultimate balancing act, nothing more, nothing less. And if you're deteremined to fix every situation you deem as bad, or difficult, or somehow unsavory, then you rob the person of their own chance to fix it, learn from it, or even grow from it. Some things, no matter how painful, happen for a reason. A reason you or I may not be able to grasp at first sight, not without knowing a person's entire life story—their cumulative past. And to just barge in and interfere, no matter how well-intentioned, would be akin to robbing them of their journey. Something that's better not done.”
― Alyson Noel, Shadowland

“It's not that kind of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind. Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can say I tried.”
― Alyson Noel, Dark Flame

“Rules should always be bent, if not broken. It's the only way to have any fun.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”
― Alyson Noel, The Immortals Boxed Set

“When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“It was like he was in a contest to see who could do the least work, only he was the only contestant.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“But it turns out that even if I don’t talk a lot, when it’s something that matters I still have a lot to say.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do
without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could
do something different.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on."
"Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question.
"Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?"
"Because," I whispered, "it's who I am."
Sounds like a good reason to me.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

“I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center

“And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?”
― Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Front and Center