582 quotes found
“I'm still angry with him, but I follow him through the drizzle anyway. Because this is Levi. This is my hero. And you always follow your heroes, even when you're mad, even when you'd rather punch t...”
“I must have truly been under his spell, believing anything is acceptable when you're in love.”
“Bucket lists are supposed to be about doing things you've always dreamt about not torturing yourself.”
“There are plenty of other ways to mend a broken heart, and doing some list full of stuff that you don't want to do doesn't have to be one of them.”
“And yet you thought he was the one? Imagine a lifetime without laughter.”
“Is that what you meant when you said the more you love a person the harder your heart breaks?”
“I realize that it's not that difficult to remember what people like, especially when you care about them.”
“Theres only so much you can watch someone sacrifice before you realize theyre changing who they are for you, and not in a good way.”
“Parenthood wasnt about blood or biology, he found; it was about a joyful willingness to give yourself over, to subordinate your own needs for someone elses. When you loved your kids, youd give up e...”
“His kiss was fierce, desperate, and slow, drugging. A shudder passed through me, warming my body from the inside out. All my defenses dissolved. We started making out again and I let Trent slip his...”
“He was a dying king of the universe and she was the witch inside whose mouth was the last drop of elixir available in the universe. Yes, either that or nothing else could explain the fierce manner ...”
“You have been so sheltered, Deeta - more even than your sisters. You know nothing of life or of people, in truth I think both scare you. You have little experience of anything but Tom and I and the...”
“My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like...”
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds”
“Because I need it," I screamed. "I tried. I tried to stop once I got my license and be normal. But.. I needed it. My body craved it the more I denied that part of me. I need to be spanked. To be do...”
“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.”
“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”
“Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain ...”
“Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed...”
“Once he heard that books are always better than movies, but he now knew that movies are better than the real life.”
