98 quotes found
“Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.”
“But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.”
“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”
“Wounds are like water set to boil they heal best left unwatched...”
“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries t...”
“I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadnt turned out to be.”
“My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much.”
“But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)”
“Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.”
“She doesn't recognize the numbernone of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.”
“The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...”
“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must be there. That you couldn't write such beautiful things and have such an u...”
“Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.”
“Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my w...”
“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"She said, "I refused to be shamed.""How did you do that?" you asked. "When they came at me, I kept coming," she said.”
“I do not believe in God. I have no religion. But this to me is as close to a church as I have known in this life. It is a holy place. With bookstores like this, I feel confident in saying that ther...”
“You don't choose a book the book chooses you”
“The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.”
“We read to know were not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.”
“What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?”
