Selena Dsouza > Selena's Quotes

“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“I can do pain. That’s the easy part of life. It’s everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that’s fucking complicated.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“Life is full of luck, like getting dealt a good hand, or simply by being in the right place at the right time. Some people get luck handed to them, a second chance, a save. It can happen heroically, or by a simple coincidence , but there are those who don’t get luck on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“There is something about someone trusting you enough with their secrets that it makes it easier to trust them. It’s like they’re opening their heart and in return yours should open up to them, too.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Redemption of Callie & Kayden

“I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it's put into their minds at birth, or if it is learned as they grow. Maybe it's even forced upon them by circumstances that are out of their hands. Does anyone have control over their lives or are we all helpless?”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“I sometimes feel like life is just one big test to see how long we can survive.”
― Jessica Sorensen

“Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

“Sometimes not being in control, not being able to think, just losing yourself in the moment, is the greatest feeling in the world. It's liberating. It's addicting. It's the most powerful high you'll ever get. It's a kind of freedom that tastes so sweet on your palate that you can't help but want more each time you have it.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

“The thing about being selfish is that you don't care if someone is at your feet begging you to stay with him, offering you the world, his heart and soul. It doesn't matter. You'll do whatever you want to do. What you need to do for yourself. Nothing matters but what you want. What you think you need.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

“It shouldn't have to be said, " Arash went on, "but when confronted by crazy, Do Not Engage.”
― Sylvia Day, One with You

“We all have things we regret…decisions we make that we have to live with. You can’t dwell on them and beat yourself up for it. It doesn’t change anything.”
― Penelope Ward, Jake Undone

“Sometimes the thing we fear more than anything, is really what our soul craves the most.”
― Penelope Ward, RoomHate

“Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.”
― Penelope Ward, Jake Understood

“Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it’s not for you they sing, And if you think my winter is too cold, You don’t deserve my spring.” Erin Hanson”
― L.J. Shen, Ruckus

“Step Away, Coffee. This Is A Job For Alcohol.”
― L.J. Shen, Tyed

“It looks like Brain and Hormones are in for a fight. Just as long as Heart stays out of the ring.”
― L.J. Shen, Tyed

“Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.”
― L.J. Shen, Defy

“Fear is a prison, and in prison you played by different rules to survive.”
― L.J. Shen, Sparrow

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” —Charlotte Brontë, ”
― L.J. Shen, Defy

“Karma isn’t just a bitch. She’s a barbaric psychopath. Lizzy”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, The Forbidden

“We all have our demons, but if we can get our demons to play nice with someone else’s, well, that makes life worth living.”
― Teresa Mummert, White Trash Damaged

“You don’t go to funerals for the ones who died, you go to support the ones left behind.”
― Tara Sivec, Branded

“Well golly fucking gosh how terribly delightful for her. Now get out.”
― Tabitha McGowan, The Tied Man

“Unfortunately, the thing about running, the thing about trying to start over — eventually that hope is dashed by your past coming up to greet you like the fires of hell”
― Rachel van Dyken, Shame

“Did you just roll your eyes at me?"
"Yes, I did and you better get used to it if you're going to say stupid things.”
― Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes

“People say exactly what they mean when they are angry. That's when they are the most free to do so. They may not mean to hurt you, but they always mean what they say.”
― Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes

“...did you have parents or did the devil just create you from some spare parts?”
― Jennifer Loren, The Devil's Eyes

“I don't think men ever grow out of their little boy games. They mature and find ways to make you not care or forget completely, if they know what they are doing and possibly your own name too, if you're real lucky. I'm feeling very lucky these days.”
― Jennifer Loren, Finding Ava

“Alcohol makes for loose lips and loose lips sink ships.”
― Jodi Ellen Malpas, This Man

“Colpo di fulmine. The thunderbolt, as Italians call it. When love strikes someone like lightning, so powerful and intense it can’t be denied. It’s beautiful and messy,
cracking a chest open and spilling their soul out for the world to see. It turns a person inside out, and there’s no going back from it. Once the thunderbolt hits, your life is
irrevocably changed.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre