286 quotes found
Author · American · 1970
American author (born 1970)
“Fake it 'till you make it.”
“Dying is easy. Living is hard”
“We tell our secrets to the dark.”
“Pictures can be pretty deceptive.”
“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your ol...”
“Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal”
“I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.”
“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.”
“There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.”
“I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.”
“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you Ill be in love with tomorrow.”
“You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.”
“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
“Love is not something you protect. Its something you risk.”
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.”
“Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock...”
“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”
“And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.”
“But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”
“So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don'...”
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He s...”