Tara > Tara's Quotes

“My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Wear your pain like lip gloss!”
― Tyne O'Connell, A Royal Match

“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
― Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

“Mary-Lynnette: "You have not read 'Pride and Prejudice'."
Ash: "Why not?"
Mary-Lynnette: "Because Jane Austen was a human."
Ash: "How do you know?"
Mary-Lynnette: "Well Jane Austen was a woman, and you're a chauvinist pig."
Ash: "Yes, well, that I can't argue.”
― L. J. Smith

“And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely...”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“If you get killed. I'm going to be furious."
"I love you too. Come On.”
― Melissa Marr, Darkest Mercy

“I need to check in with Seth before I--" he burrowed his face into the side of her neck, his breath almost painfully warm on her throat--"give in to my unconscionable desire to put my hands on you properly.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”
― Lauren Conrad

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I'm coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.

Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?" says Caesar.

Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I’ve had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I’m pretty sure she didn’t know I was alive until the reaping."

Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

She have another fellow?" asks Caesar.

I don’t know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.

So, here’s what you do. You win, you go home. She can’t turn you down then, eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.

I don’t think it’s going to work out. Winning...won’t help in my case," says Peeta.

Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.

Peeta blushes beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.”
― Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

“I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

“What would I do without you?"
"You'll never find out.”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

“So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?"

"I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“People die . . . so love them every day.
Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone.
Love changes . . . but not the love you give.
And if you love, you'll never be alone.”
― L.J. Smith, Witchlight

“He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!”
― L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness

“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”
― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“I fell in love with you. I didn't do it on purpose”
― L.J. Smith, The Hunter

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
― Groucho Marx

“My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.”
― Rachel Caine, Kiss of Death

“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”
― L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 2

“You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan”
― Melissa Marr, Wicked Lovely

“I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.”
― Amanda Hocking, Torn

“The thing is- and I know this is going to sound strange-that I seem to love you sort of desperately”
― L.J. Smith, Daughters of Darkness

“I'm going to kiss you... until you faint”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game