Cienna > Cienna's Quotes

“Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.”
― Dr. Seuss

“If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“You can't judge who you love the most by how long you love them.”
― Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You

“Isn’t it weird that we had nothing at the time … but somehow it felt like we had everything.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“We can’t go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me?”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“There was nothing we could do; we were just a couple of powerless, poor kids, so desperate to find a way to be together.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“Jason Dean Colbertson, how’d you get so great?” There was silence. He kept his eyes closed and said, “You made me this way, Em.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“You’re all I have left. You’re holding my whole world together, Em.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“In real life we have a hard time recognizing serendipitous moments because we’re not making the story up as we go along. It’s not a lie—it’s really happening to us, and we have no idea how it will end. Some of us will look back on our lives and recall events that were a bit too perfect, but until you know the whole story, it’s impossible to see the universe at work, or even admit that there is something bigger than us, making sure everything that should happen does happen. If you can surrender to the idea that there might be a plan, instead of reducing every magical moment to a coincidence, then love will find you.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“Our story is great. Maybe not all the other shit, but the story of us is perfect, Em.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“Come let me love you.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“It’s impossible to really hate someone if you don’t love them at least a little.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“I love you, Emiline. I loved you before I even knew what it meant.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“I swear on your life,”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“I thought loving someone meant letting go, but by the time I learned that loving someone means fighting for them too, it was too late.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“This could be the best thing for us, after it stops being the worst.”
― Renee Carlino, Swear on This Life

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. One day, when the young ladies were of age to be married, a terrible, three-headed dragon laid siege to the kingdom, burning villages with fiery breath. It spoiled crops and burned churches. It killed babies, old people, and everyone in between.

The king promised a princess’s hand in marriage to whoever slayed the dragon. Heroes and warriors came in suits of armor, riding brave horses and bearing swords and arrows.

One by one, these men were slaughtered and eaten.

Finally the king reasoned that a maiden might melt the dragon’s heart and succeed where warriors had failed. He sent his eldest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon listened to not a word of her pleas. It swallowed her whole.

Then the king sent his second daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, but the dragon did the same. Swallowed her before she could get a word out.

The king then sent his youngest daughter to beg the dragon for mercy, and she was so lovely and clever that he was sure she would succeed where the others had perished.

No indeed. The dragon simply ate her.

The king was left aching with regret. He was now alone in the world.

Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls?

The dragon? Or their father?”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I think you're beautiful always and forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Be normal, now. Right now. Because you are. Because you can be.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'

'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

“It's really hard to say the words I love you when you know you'll likely never hear them back”
― Karole Cozzo, How to Say I Love You Out Loud

“It's as though I don't make a ripple as I drop off the face of the earth.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door