Emily > Emily's Quotes

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

“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

“My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.”
― Rebecca Lim, Mercy

“But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.”
― Alyson Noel, Evermore

“He leaned forward and said, "Tell me, friend. Is there more for us?"

I looked down at my feet. "There's everything for us.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

“Sometimes... Sometimes our hearts...crack a little.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

“Stay with me, Becks. Dream of me. I am ever yours.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

“There’s something eternal about love and once it starts, it doesn’t stop. There is no controlling it—love does what it wants when it wants.”
― H.M. Ward, Cursed

“This isn't a crush, it's obsession.You are never not in my thoughts. Your scent carries across a room and paralyzes me with longing. I don't want to hold your hand. Part of me wants to set you on fire and hold you while the flame consumes us both, to eat your heart so I know that only I possess it entirely.”
― Gwen Hayes, Falling Under

“Just remember, a dark shadow need light to exist but light doesn't need darkness to be luminous.”
― Gwen Hayes, Dreaming Awake

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“Love you,” Xavier said just before he drifted back to sleep.
“Love you more,” I said playfully.
“Not a chance,” Xavier said, fully awake now. “I’m bigger, I can contain more love.”
“I’m smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.”
Xavier laughed. “That argument makes no sense. Overruled.”
“I’m just basing it on how much I miss you when you’re not around,” I countered.
“How can you possibly know how much I miss you?” he said. “Have you got some sort of built-in miss-o-meter that can give us a reading?”
“I’m a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“You want to marry me? I was thinking we’d start slow and see where things went, but hey, what the hell!"

"I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m crazy about you."

“So you hadn’t noticed? That’s not a good thing—I’m going to have to be more
demonstrative in future.”

“Beth . . . for so many guys sex is the only thing that keeps their relationships from falling apart, but we’re not like that. We have so much more. I’ve never discussed it with you because I’ve never felt that we needed to. I’m sure it would be amazing, but I love you for you, not for what you can offer me.”

“Beth, I love you and nothing makes me happier than being close to you. You’re intoxicating.”

“Because when I look at you, I see my whole world. I’m not about to walk away; I wouldn’t have anything left.”

"The world could fall apart around me, and it wouldn’t matter if I had you.”

“A man in love can do extraordinary things. I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“In him I saw my furture
In him I saw my friend
In him I saw my destiny
Both my beginning and end”
― alexandra adornetto

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse.”
― Josephine Angelini, Starcrossed

“You're my invisible sun, aren't you?”
― Josephine Angelini, Dreamless

“You know what? I take it back. You did do something to me. You led me on.”
― Josephine Angelini

“So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“What if there is endless free choice and not a single choice is right or wrong? Could every choice be a possibility? What if every option feels good or bad based only on our perception of it? Or if all the 'rules' aren't really rules? What would happen if just being in the moment was an option?”
― Kimberly Sabatini

“I want you to stay. I need you to go.”
― Kimberly Sabatini, Touching the Surface

“To truly love someone you have to see their flaws. See the dark side. The things you don't like.”
― Lee Monroe, Dark Heart Forever

“Our hearts are bound together,' he said, 'and I am free to decide who I love. And what I want. Nothing - not the pressure of my family, or what anyone else thinks - matters.”
― Lee Monroe, Dark Heart Forever

“You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day