Maurisa > Maurisa's Quotes

“I wanted to say, My life is full. I chose this life because it's a constant assault of color and taste and light and it's raw and ugly and fast and it's mine. And you'll never understand. Until you live it, you don't know.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“When you can’t see in front of you life is nothing but surprises. Looking back, there were truly so few of them.”
― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“We all have our weepy wine nights,” he says. “It’s what makes us human.”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“If someone changes so much that they're barely the same person, who are you even missing?”
― Allison Larkin, The People We Keep

“It hurts to want it all, so many things that can't coexist within the same life.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Intermingled in the mess was another, subtler secret ... we were happy, yet unfulfilled. It was possible, I understood now, to be both at the same time.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“You can't ever know someone completely. You have to be everything to them and that's impossible.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“All of you wouldn't fit in my mind, or in any simulation. Only the universe can hold you.”
― Catriona Silvey, Meet Me in Another Life

“Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don't seem to follow any.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“It was the best feeling in the worst moment.”
― Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

“None of it matters, and all of it matters too much.”
― Robin Reul, My Kind of Crazy

“But life is for living, isn't it? We all have to find some way to carry on.”
― Laura Barnett, The Versions of Us

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“Sometimes he fantasised that at the end of his life, he would be shown a home movie of all the roads he had not taken, and where they would have led.”
― Laura Barnett, The Versions of Us

“Ours was a good love, Eva tells him in her mind. Not the giddy love of teenagers, or that of a married couple in middle age, frayed by work, home, children, by the hue and cry of the everyday; but its own, pure thing, true to itself, answerable to no one, to nothing. If”
― Laura Barnett, The Versions of Us

“And it's impossible to say and even harder to feel.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my library.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing