18 quotes found
“What's there to remember if not the good things?”
“Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel.”
“The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.”
“It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are.”
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...”
“Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?”
“... love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, where...”
“That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.”
“We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn't love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of endin...”
“We're going to be okay. Lainey isn't the glue that keeps us together. We are. We're the glue. Okay?”
“Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.”
“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaw...”
“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with know...”
“Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.”
“The person who completes your life, is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather, the person who made your life worth living -- no matter how long or short a tim...”
“Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play. ”
“Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that.”
“I'm not sure why God made us the way He did... As to why we're here, well, I think maybe we're here to learn to love Him. To learn to love God and to want to be with Him. I think we're here to cult...”
