Katie > Katie's Quotes

“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
― W.H. Auden

“Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.”
― W.H. Auden

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
― W.H. Auden

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Even if someone wasn't perfect or even especially good, you couldn't dismiss the love they felt. Love was always love; it had a rightness all its own, even if the person feeling the love was full of wrongness.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist. . . Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved. ”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“Yes, it’s true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn’t mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love.But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it’s miracle: your one tiny life’s head-on collision with divinity. ”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
― Sarah Dessen

“Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. ”
― Sarah Dessen

“It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Then tell them we've all got meanness in us...But tell them we have some good in us too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.”
― Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is

“When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?”
― W.H. Auden

“Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.”
― W. H. Auden

“My life is a reading list.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“In my experience, people love what they love. They just do. Or fail to love what they fail to love.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In

“I think love is an imperative. It obligates you.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Falling Together

“But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future and feel part of an overarching rightness. ”
― Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me

“Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.”
― Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me

“You are who you are, whether you like it or not, so why not like it?”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells