Miles Quotes

“The pain will always be there.

So will the fear.

But the pain and fear are no longer my life. They're only moments.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Hearts get infiltrated.
Promises get broken.
Rules get shattered.
Love gets ugly.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting form the very first one.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.”
― Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved

“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles Errant

“Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles Errant

“This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely."
"I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem

“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”
― Alyson Noel

“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“It's all worth it. It's the beautiful moments like these that make up for the ugly love.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Mine. I'm on my side.”
― Alyson Noel

“A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry—even if he is at a convenient height for it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice

“AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.
'So that's Sara,' I said.
'Yes.'
'She seems nice.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get out of that life. This is the answer to why the journey to fulfillment is often so difficult. However, if you can find a shortcut, a new path, you can get to the life you want much quicker. This is the premise of personal development, self-improvement and self-discovery..!”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Takumi said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.”
― Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose

“Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back and forth across the room again, and his pain burst into speech. He flung his words against the deaf door, "I'll make you take back that apology! I am all right, damn it! I'll make you see it. I'll stuff you so full of pride in me there'll be no room left for your precious guilt! I swear by my word as Vorkosigan. I swear it, Father," his voice fell to a whisper, "Grandfather. Somehow, I don't know how . . .”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Young Miles

“In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem

“Besides, is it really mine if I'm not being myself?”
― Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

“He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried flossing his teeth. Then he tried making little green designs with tiny, tiny knots. Then he hit on the idea of weaving messages. Could he macramé "Help, I am a prisoner . . ." and plant it on the back of someone's jacket by static charge? If someone ever came back, that is? He got as far as a delicate gossamer H, E, L, caught the thread on a hangnail while rubbing his stubbled chin, and reduced his plea to an illegible green wad. He pulled another thread and started over.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“The eye of hurricane Ian was thirty miles wide!”
― Steven Magee

“As a child my roaming range was 5 miles, as a young teenager it was 230 miles, as a young adult it was 2,000 miles, and as a mature adult it was 7,500 miles!”
― Steven Magee

“It's always the miles, not time ...”
― Christian Fennell, What I Know About the Human Race: A Collection of Writing

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, but the direction defines the destination.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“A mile away is not the final destination,
which is why you must look ahead, and keep walking.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Miles: What would you even do with a car? Besides sit behind the wheel and make vroom-vroom noises?

Lenny: Dang, I thought for sure you weren't listening. I'd sell it, obviously. And use they money to buy a pair of roller skates. Roller skates are more my speed.

Miles: Expensive pair of roller skates.

Lenny: They'd be made of NFTs.

Miles: You have no idea what NFTs are, do you?

Lenny: Does anyone? No! Don't attempt to explain it.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“I don't want you to be healthy for me. I want you to be healthy for you. So...if you need to do something you'll regret...let's do it. I'm in. Just not your hair.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“You can measure a man by the inches lost in his failures, or you can measure a man by the miles forged in his refusal to give up despite the pain of the inches.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough