Erica > Erica's Quotes

“I always wonder about raindrops.

I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents fall, doesn't seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors.

I am a raindrop.

My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Get smart and nothing can touch you.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.”
― Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire

“Always be yourself, there's no one better!”
― Selena Gomez

“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Death is the reward for living”
― Sylvia Browne, Life on the Other Side: A Psychic's Tour of the Afterlife

“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?"
He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this" -- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"
I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Death is the Graduation of the Soul”
― Sylvia Browne, The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond

“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I had heard the old Indian legend about the red fern. How a little Indian boy and girl were lost in a blizzard and had frozen to death. In the spring, when they were found, a beautiful red fern had grown up between their two bodies. The story went on to say that only an angel could plant the seeds of a red fern, and that they never died; where one grew, that spot was sacred.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin