479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“Take down the walls.”
“Hope keeps you alive.”
“God bless Dunkin' Donuts.”
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
“I guess thats just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
“Mama, Mama, help me get homeI'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.I found me a werewolf, a nasty old muttIt showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.Mama, Mama, help me get homeI'm out i...”
“I know that the whole pointthe only pointis tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.”
“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of u...”
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fea...”
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
“Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.”
“If youre smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”
“Who knows? Maybe theyre right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is...”
“I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.”
“Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”
“And for a momentfor a split secondeverything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my...”
“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”
“Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.”
“I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me," I say quickly."I want to, though.”
“I am falling, tumbling through the air, but this time the darkness is alive around me, full of beating things, and I realize that I'm not surrounded by dark but have only had my eyes closed all thi...”
