Jaye H > Jaye's Quotes

“It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory."
Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“That was not like riding a bike, you asshole!”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“That was the Liam Stewart way of saying, Hi, darlin', missed you something fierce.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“They'd taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Where did she come from, and where can I find one?"

"Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Where in the world did you get that dress?"

"Present from Zu."

"You look like you want to throw it in a fire."

"I can't promise there won't be an unfortunate accident later on.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I love this part of getting to know someone. How every new piece of information, every new expression, seems magical. I can't imagine this becoming old and boring. I can't imagine not wanting to hear what she has to say.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It’s hard trying to hold on to a place that doesn’t want you.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“Having dreams never killed anybody.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The universe stops and waits for us.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“You're just looking for someone to save you. Save yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“There’s a Japanese phrase that I like: koi no yokan. It doesn’t mean love at first sight. It’s closer to love at second sight. It’s the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them. Maybe you don’t love them right away, but it’s inevitable that you will.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“We are capable of big lives. A big history. Why settle? Why choose the practical thing, the mundane thing? We are born to dream and make the things we dream about.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I didn't know you this morning, and now I don't remember not knowing you.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“Desperation translates into every language.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“People make mistakes all the time. Small ones, like you get in the wrong checkout line. The one with the lady with a hundred coupons and a checkbook.

Sometimes you make medium-sized ones. You go to medical school instead of pursuing you passion.

Sometimes you make big ones.

You give up.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that's God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Observable Fact: I don't believe in magic.
Observable Fact: We are magic.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Do you think it's funny that both of our favourite memories are about the people we like the least now?" I ask.

"Maybe that's why we dislike them," she says. "The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star