Dove Summers > Dove's Quotes

“How are we going to handle dating and the newspaper?"
He rubs the tension at the base of my neck. "I tell you what to do and you'll ignore me."
"So...like normal?"
"Yeah."
"Sounds good.”
― Jenny B. Jones, So Over My Head

“I fell asleep, slipping into the kind of dreams that aren’t dreams at all -- just memories with all the details you never thought you’d remember and couldn’t believe you’d forgotten.”
― Paige Harbison, Here Lies Bridget

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“The dead aren't the only ones who vanish: you, too, can disappear in plain sight if enough is taken from you. I was still missing, in many ways. And I wasn't sure I wanted to be found.”
― Sarah Dessen, Once and for All

“Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.”
― Sarah Dessen, Once and for All

“I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen," he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.”
― Sarah Dessen, Once and for All

“It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“L: You want me just to be your... friend?

E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardian angel.

L: What?

E: Do you know what it's like to have someone crash into your life with no warning? When you landed in my office, I was like, Who the fuck is this? But you shook me up. You brought me back to life at a time when I was in limbo. You were just what I needed...
You're just what I need.

L: Well I need you too. So we're even.

E: No, you don't need me. You're doing just fine.

L: Ok. Maybe I don't need you. But... I want you.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“What I really want is someone who will wake me up early so I don't miss a sunrise.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Your enchantments last long after your song fades.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“I think you love me.
I do.
I think I love you too.
You think?
I know.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Siren Queen

“Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.
The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.
And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“4. Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone