Olivia S > Olivia's Quotes

“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Midwife's Confession

“The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.”
― Sarah Jio

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“Kalle Fucking Blomkvist”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“i want to make it official, i want to make it forever”
― Emily Griffin

“Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on.”
― Sarah Jio, The Violets of March

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I loved you all over again”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“some of life’s most beautiful things grow out of the darkest moments.”
― Sarah Jio, Morning Glory

“What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“Amour vit en avant.” Love lives on.”
― Sarah Jio, The Look of Love

“Isn’t it nice … once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The scary part is I knew exactly how bad
you were for me
and yet that didn't stop me
from loving you”
― Samantha King

“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“So often we are defined by what we've done
and the mistakes we've made
For once I would like to be
Measured by the steps I took today
Rather than the footprints of yesterday”
― Samantha King, Born to Love, Cursed to Feel

“You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“Like time suspended,
a wound unmended--
you and I.

We had no ending,
no said goodbye;

For all my life,
I'll wonder why.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“There's no point worrying until we know what we're worrying about.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, You're the One That I Want

“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
― pleasefindthis

“And then my soul saw you and it kind of went "Oh there you are. I've been looking for you.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“This is why it hurts the way it hurts.

You have too many words in your head. There are too many ways to describe the way you feel. You will never have the luxury of a dull ache.

You must suffer through the intricacy of feeling too much.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.

The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.


You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You