114 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”
“I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”
“Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.”
“Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.”
“Happiness is a risk. If youre not a little scared, then youre not doing it right.”
“Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that so...”
“Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.”
“We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. ...”
“Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.”
“A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.S...”
“It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.”
“But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing.”
“...Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they ...”
“Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved th...”
“If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away”
“People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.”
“Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”
“He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.”
“Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy p...”
“Under her thick pancake makeup, her sin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy pl...”
“Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? Agatha would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.”
