35 quotes found
“Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.”
“What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.”
“Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.”
“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.”
“Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it.”
“Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.”
“That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.”
“Sometimes you just have those days where everything goes wrong. But sometimes, and totally unexpectedly, something can go right.”
“I didnt know. I feel sometimes likethere are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? Youre supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. Youre supposed to wear headbands, or youre not s...”
“We shouldn't be doing this." Dan broke the silence, his voice low. "We would both get in trouble." He stood up. "Let's go back.""We shouldn't be doing what?" I scrambled to my feet. "What exactly a...”
“If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people.”
“I think love without heartbreak is a myth. A pretty myth, but the kind of myth that ultimately makes us feel worse about ourselves because we're somehow not able to make it come true.”
“When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going...”
“I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”
“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believ...”
“You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.”
“People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.”
“Why did you do this?" He was shaking. "Just tell me why."I tried to muster up some of the righteous indignation that I'd felt on Friday night as I said, "You knocked over my gravestone!" But even t...”
“This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”
“If you're going to have the tortured soul of an artist, then you might as well create some art while you're at it.”
“History doesn't intend to have some particular emotional value, or any particular moral. History doesn't have any intentions at all. It's just a never-ending web of events that can have pretty much...”
“Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me r...”
