Miko > Miko's Quotes

“A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“You got to find your own places. The places you get, girl, the ones that stick in your heart. And if you’re lucky, you find people to share them with.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Impulsive isn’t something you choose. It’s something you
are.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Prices are relative. So is poverty. So is happiness.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Isn't that what your memory was about, Bria? Losing control?"

I pause. "I never knew memories were about anything. Besides the obvious. You make them sound like dreams -- subject to interpretation."

"I think the two are more related than we realize. It's all in how our minds frame them. How we decide what -- and how -- we remember.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“You can appreciate the good things all around you, but the best part is imminent, just out of reach. Like... perpetual anticipation.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“I know what it's like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It’s when you can’t settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that . . . it’s a compulsion. It’s the difference between lust and love.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“I don't know much,
But when push comes to shove,
I definitely don't believe,
There's such a thing as wrong love.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“In life,there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

“You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

“Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

“I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

“The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

“When it comes to people--don't write about who you know, but what you know of human nature.”
― Candace Bushnell, The Carrie Diaries

“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember.

Lies 2: Time is a straight line.

Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not.

Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time.

Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...)

Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon.

Lies 7: Reality is truth.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry

“What you love the most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary