Martha K > Martha K's Quotes

“It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Life is change -- if nothing's changing, you aren't living.”
― Sophie Cousens, This Time Next Year

“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“You don't have to be unhappy in order to be successful in life.”
― Jasmine Guillory, Drunk on Love

“Don’t trade one kind of blindness for another.”
― Mona Awad, Bunny

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“In games, the thing that matters most is the order of things. The game has an algorithm, but the player also must create a play algorithm in order to win. There is an order to any victory. There is an optimal way to play any game.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You bought me a ticket to a planet where I lived by myself.”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, The Nothing Man

“Things change, but we stretch and grow and make room for one another.

Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.

You belong here. ”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“Sometimes there’s a thin line between helping and controlling.”
― Tracey Lange, We Are the Brennans

“What are you doing here?” Patience, as it turned out, might be a work in progress for me. When he took a few steps closer, I saw the fire roaring in his gaze. “I’m here to get my wife.”
― Karla Sorensen, One and Only

“There are so many subtle ways we women subconsciously protect ourselves throughout the day; protect ourselves from shadows, from unseen predators. From cautionary tales and urban legends. So subtle, in fact, that we hardly even realize we’re doing them.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

“I guess books say different things to different people.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“You can't make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That's the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“I have died a thousand deaths, but that did not define me. Instead, I lived a thousand lives and it is for that reason that I now can write our story for future generations to always remember.”
― Madeline Martin, The Keeper of Hidden Books

“Furie had once asked her, “Why would you ever send a man to do a woman’s job?”
Confused, Myst had answered, “Because I can.”
― Kresley Cole, The Warlord Wants Forever

“Don’t trade emotional currency with strangers. You will never get a refund.”
― Tessa Bailey, Window Shopping

“Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”
― Adrienne Rich

“I loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you’ve never visited, and people you’ve never met.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Dance like nobody’s watching. Fuck like everyone is.”
― Kresley Cole, The Master

“That’s not your choice. It’s already been decided for you. You can’t change what’s happened. The only thing you can control is how you deal with it.”
― Riley Sager, Final Girls

“In my old age, I see that life itself is often more fantastic and terrible than the stories we believed as children, and that perhaps there is no harm in finding magic among the trees.”
― Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child

“Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.”
― Sierra Simone, Priest

“Sometimes bad things happen. And there’s no blame to be placed. You can’t reason with the universe, no matter how sound your logic is … We are imperfect people made that way by an imperfect world, and we don’t always get a say in what shapes us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

“I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live.”
― Jessica George, Maame

“I’ve had friends like that,” he says, “the ones you outgrow but keep anyway.”
― Christina Lauren, Roomies