Brooke Harris > Brooke's Quotes

“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Life has to end. Love doesn't.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“There's more to life than being a passenger.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“I’d a million times rather live and risk and have it all end badly than stay in the box I’ve been in for the past two years.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept an evil you can change
Always do what your afraid to do”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

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

“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Do not accept an evil you can change.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Always do what you're afraid to do.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Terror is our strongest force because we’re only afraid when we have something to lose—our lives, our loves…our dignity. It’s”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“You can do far more than you ever imagined.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“I never realized that courage was so terrifying.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“We're more than our mistakes. We're more than what people expect of us.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Rahim, a boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Rahim Khan laughed. “Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner