389 quotes found
Writer · American · 1979
American writer (born 1979)
“Okay, so how does this work exactly?" I ask as we walk toward his car. "Do we float down the bayou in rowboat while little critters sing 'Kiss the Girl'.”
“I remember one time we were walking into a grocery store and an old man was ringing a bell for the Salvation Army. I asked my dad if we could give him some money and he told me no, that he works ha...”
“The old me is sure making things difficult for the current me.”
“Who cares about tomorrow?What more is tomorrow,than another day?(-The Avett Brothers, "Swept Away")”
“The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before y...”
“I've lost a lot in my long life. Yes, I've seen pain and I've seen strife. But I'll never give up; I'll never let go. Because I'll always have my ray of hope.”
“Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there.”
“There will be days that I don't think we'll know how to survive. But we will, because we have each other.”
“As an author, I want to write what Im inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the books will ultimately be better if my heart is fully into what Im writing.”
“You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.”
“Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.”
“If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection...”
“Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.”
“Sky, wait. The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.”
“Sometimes we don't get second chances. Sometimes things just end.”
“It's funny how that works. 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. Tal...”
“Whether or not the couple ends up together at the end of a book doesn't determine whether the book has a happy ending or not. As long as the two people end up happy, it doesn't really matter if the...”
“Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.”
“I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.”
“I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop.”