Melina > Melina's Quotes

“I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“Don’t think of it as falling. Think of it as jumping- with me.”


“How is jumping better?”


“Falling happens. Jumping you choose.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I'm in love with you. I'm in love with you and I don't know how to make you feel better. I'm in love with you and I shouldn't be. I'm in love with you and once you figure out who I am, you're not going to love me. I'm in love with you and I seem to fuck up the ones who love me back.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“She's probably right on both counts, but there's something dark in her eyes. It's the same shadow I see whenever she stops me. "You're worth fighting for."

"I'm not." The way she answers too fast with too much conviction twists my insides. When the three men who should be taking bullets for her stand by and let insults be thrown at her, how can I convince her otherwise?”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“I feel small against him, fragile. Like he's realized the secret I've hidden: that I'm breakable, if not already broken.”
― Katie McGarry, Take Me On

“can’t deny that it’s insane, but it feels like the best possible way to be insane.”
― R.H. Tucker, Rumor Has It

“I knew I couldn’t go back and start a new beginning. I couldn’t rewrite the middle. All I could do was change tomorrow, as long as I had one.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, If There's No Tomorrow

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Stories are wild creatures, the monster said. When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Stories don't always have happy endings."

This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.

And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.   —”
― Kristin Hannah, True Colors

“Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off.”
― Iris St. Clair, Louder Than Words

“You’re lonely just like the rest of us. You want to be admired and adored, just like the rest of us.” He leans in, and in a lower voice adds, ”And there’s nothing wrong with that.”
― Iris St. Clair, Louder Than Words

“Boys and girls,” he shakes his head, “they aren't friends, not really, unless they’re both gay. At least one of you is in the friendship because you want more from the other, but you either can’t or won’t ask for what you want.”
― Iris St. Clair, Louder Than Words

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

“You can't always keep your loved ones with you. You can't always settle your life in one place. The world was made to change. But as long as you cherish the memories and make new ones along on the way, no matter where you are, you'll always be at home.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Dad always told me there are more stories in the universe than stars in the sky. And in every story, there's the light of hope. That's why the seniors sent lanterns up to the sky-to make sure the darkness is never absolute.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Grief is one big, gaping hole, isn’t it? It’s everywhere and all consuming. Some days you think you can’t go on because the only thing waiting for you is more despair. Some days you don’t want to go on because it’s easier to give up than to get hurt again.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“And I know the auditorium may be big enough to hold a thousand students, but it's too small to hide just one.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“there were two types of people in this world: those who belong to the soil and the good, rich earth, planting their seeds to blossom, and those who belong to the road and the endless horizons, carrying their home on their shoulders wherever they go.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Labels aren't big enough for people. And once you try to categorize someone, you stop looking for who they actually are.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Luck

“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover. Hard to find and lucky to have.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Luck

“This was the thing I'd lost track of this summer. That being chosen--or not chosen--was not the thing that made me valuable. I was valuable regardless. I was enough, all on my own.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Luck

“She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they’re thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they’d just accuse you of being paranoid.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, The It Girl