Jennifer > Jennifer's Quotes

“To anyone who’s ever felt lost in a wood. There is a
strange sort of finding in losing.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“You did not come all this way to yield to despair.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“He has looked pain in the eye - and refused to let it make a monster of him”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“There you are.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“My darling, you’ve always had a choice.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“But first, I want a hundred years with you.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Saying there must be another way does not make it so”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“They never had much, but they always had enough.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on.”
And that’s how it was.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Many people find it difficult living with someone who likes to be alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“You can’t kill a nightmare, but you can scare it. And there’s nothing so feared by nightmares as milk and cookies.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Because all seven-year-olds deserve superheroes. And anyone who doesn’t agree needs their head examined.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Because improbable tragedies create improbable superheroes.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“All the best people are different -look at superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“because the people who reach the end of their days must leave others who have to live out their days without them. It is very, very difficult to be the one who has to stay behind and live without them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“I want someone to remember I existed. I want someone to know I was here.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Only different people change the world,” Granny used to say. “No one normal has ever changed a crapping thing.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Only a fool is not afraid.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“People are more than just the way they look.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“To be rather than to seem.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I don't think there's anything wrong being a dreamer.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus