Melanie > Melanie's Quotes

“Ever since I was a child, I’ve had the gut sense that there’s a consciousness behind the universe. When I witness the precision of mathematics, the reliability of physics, and the symmetries of the cosmos, I don’t feel like I’m observing cold science; I feel as if I’m seeing a living footprint…the shadow of some greater force that is just beyond our grasp.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“It is a great gift indeed to love who you are.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“...I didn't want to miss a moment of what little life I had left. I wanted to drink in the stars. I wanted to feel the fuzzy wings of the owlets. I wanted to stretch my roots just a tiny bit farther before the night was through. I wanted to indulge in some quiet contemplation about life and love and what it all meant... "I've been thinking... There's no point in my worrying about tomorrow. It will come soon enough.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“friendship doesn’t have to be hard. That sometimes we let the world make it hard.”
― Katherine Applegate, Wishtree

“There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Stars cannot shine without darkness.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Ask the questions you need to ask, admit without apology what you don’t understand, and do the work to learn what you need to learn as quickly as you can.”
― Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“People say that love is rare. I am not so sure. What is rare is something even more desirable. Understanding. There is no point in being loved if you are not understood. They are simply loving an idea of you they have in their mind. They are in love with love. They are in love with their loving. To be understood. And not only that, but to be understood and appreciated once understood. That is what matters.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible