223 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You won't find real love because you're beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love.”
“Fireworks. Snowflakes. Sunstroke and frostbite. It was all that I could ask for and completely unexpected. I expected demands. He gifted me with tenderness. I expected ego. He let me experiment. I ...”
“I had never kissed a boy, had never even considered that I might enjoy such an unclean thing, until literature opened my eyes.”
“In a woman's womb another chance to makethe world a better place.”
“Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.”
“Yes, it takes two to dance. But somebody has to lead.”
“So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.”
“There is strength in forgiveness.”
“The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.”
“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”
“Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all.”
“LightThat's how I feel-like the winter-fringedbreeze might scoopme up into its wings,flyaway with me trappedin its feathered embrace.I am a snowflake.A wisp of eiderdown,liberatedfrom gravity. My b...”
“Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way.Now there are those who might try to...”
“Forgiveness isnt my best thing.Easier staying pissed. But Imtired of being pissed all the time.Tired of feeling hurt by stuff thatcan never be fixed because it isan indelible part of the past.”
“In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.”
“Funny thing about the monster.The worse he treats you, the more you love him.”
“Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.”
“Does wanting to die equal losing your mind?”
“I felt angry, frustrated.I felt I didn't belong, not in my,church, not in my home, not in my skin.”
“A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.”
