...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

WhiskeyScotch

“Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

WhiskeyScotch

“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”

― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

WhiskeyScotch

“We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

WhiskeyScotch

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

WhiskeyScotch

“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

WhiskeyScotch

“Some things you hear with your ears. Others, you hear with your heart.”

― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

missselfridge

"Many places  you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you"ll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow."

- Princess of Sweet Rhyme, The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

missselfridge

"Every once in a while she'll get worked up and cry like that. But that's OK. She's letting her feelings out. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in deep trouble."

-- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

missselfridge

"I understand what you're saying and your comments are valuable, But I'm gonna ignore your advice."

- Roald Dahl,  Fantastic Mr. Fox

WhiskeyScotch

"Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly."

—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

WhiskeyScotch

"The curves of your lips rewrite history."

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

WhiskeyScotch

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden

WhiskeyScotch

"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."

—W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

WhiskeyScotch

"How wild it was, to let it be."

—Cheryl Strayed, Wild

WhiskeyScotch

"Do I dare / Disturb the universe?"

—T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

WhiskeyScotch

"The half life of love is forever."

—Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her

WhiskeyScotch

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

WhiskeyScotch

"For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly."

—Langston Hughes, The Big Sea

WhiskeyScotch

"One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

—Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices

cornfla1

From my current read- Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”

“The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.”