Lynne Whitney > Lynne's Quotes

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
― Richard Evans

“So you see, Hell's not so bad if you get to keep an angel with you.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Here's to responsibility, twice a week.',”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga

“The waves of pain that had only lapped at me before now reared high up and washed over my head, pulling me under. I did not resurface.”
― Stephanie Meyer, New Moon

“I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“the best 4 letter word in the world is Hope”
― Stephenie Meyer

“You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“I’m just going to do what I want now, and let the chips fall where they may.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Be Safe.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Set

“And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

“So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood.
He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Like everything in life, I just had to decide what to do with what I was given.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“Just like a kitten that thinks its a tiger.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“Life sucks, and then you die.
Yeah, I should be so lucky.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“Bite me.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

“I struggled to find the words to name the feelings that flooded through me, but I had no words strong enough to hold them. For a long moment, I drowned in them. When I surfaced, I was not the same man I had been. My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley