October 2011
48 posts
“This was a memory I wanted to keep whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment.”
—Sara Zarr, Sweethearts
“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
—Alice Hoffman, The Foretelling
“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
—Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
“That’s how you know you really trust someone, I think. When you don’t have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”
—Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
“There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you’ll have a chance at survival. Two, because it’s the right thing to do.”
—Lauren Baratz-Logsted, Crazy Beautiful
“You know someone’s right for you when the things they don’t have to say are even more important than the things they do.”
—Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
“There is no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.”
—Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
“If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
—Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone—you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
—Alyson Noel, Evermore
“The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along.”
—Victoria Ashton
“Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can’t see clearly?”
—Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
“Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid…well, they’ve started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret. I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: ‘I’m sorry, I’ve let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it. I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.’”
—Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“No one actually needs another person or another person’s love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.”
—Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
“It doesn’t matter what people tell you. It doesn’t matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.”
—Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
“Things fall apart, even when you think they’re stronger than anything you could ever imagine.”
—Susane Colasanti, Waiting For You
“How I’d love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”
—Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy.”
—Aidan Chambers, This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“People are always worried about what’s happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.”
—Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“I realize the thing about a guy you’ve spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he’s real, you’ve really made most of him up.”
—Kirsten Smith, The Geography of Girlhood
