Jackie's quotes

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"N'exigez pas beaucoup et vous ne serez ps decu"
— Cinda Williams Chima

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"Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love."
— William Shakespeare (The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet)

2 people liked it

"In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it. "
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

122 people liked it

"I mean who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams."
— Ellen Hopkins

28 people liked it

"Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: ironic
55 people liked it

"And he smiled at her, truely smiled- wicked and lovely..."
— Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely)

51 people liked it

""Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
"Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily."
— Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)

43 people liked it

"For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise."
— Christopher Paolini (Brisingr)

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"The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done."
— Christopher Paolini (Brisingr)

26 people liked it

"Passion now begins to wake
and whom we desire, we will take
then we'll cut them down to the quick
love itself the cruelest trick.
Moved we are by loves sweet song
though it plays not for long
we can blow on embers bright
till passion outtakes the light."
— Nancy Holder (Legacy)

7 people liked it

"So it's still standing? I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: breaking-dawn
215 people liked it

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

tags: love
2,379 people liked it

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
1,286 people liked it

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

tags: love
1,031 people liked it

"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
— Sarah Dessen

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"So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

tags: lies, truth
284 people liked it

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

tags: death, heart, love
353 people liked it

"and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
— Jodi Picoult

tags: death, heart, love, mourning, suicide
170 people liked it

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

270 people liked it

"I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl"
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)

44 people liked it

"You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people."
— Jerry Spinelli (Love, Stargirl)

6 people liked it

"Heart and head are contrary historians."
— Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)

12 people liked it

""...She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again." pg 180
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— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

29 people liked it

"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

403 people liked it

"There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart."
— Sarah Dessen

369 people liked it

"You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances."
— Sarah Dessen

245 people liked it

"It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth About Forever)

392 people liked it

""this Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on...""
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

52 people liked it

""War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too." ~pg 392 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

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""There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426"
— Patrick Ness

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""...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

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""When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

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""Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53 "
— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

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""Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?" ~pg 11
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— Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go)

3 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,703 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
17,774 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,759 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
10,899 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,972 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,203 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,177 people liked it

"The moment comes when a character does or says somthing you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it up yo him."
— Grahm Greene

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""Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Greif didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slwoly. ~pg 164 of Inkdeath"
— Cornelia Funke (Inkdeath)

tags: books, inkdeath, men, women
32 people liked it

"I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minuet of your life."
— Alison Goodman (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn)

6 people liked it

"There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory."
— Alison Goodman (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn)

6 people liked it

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

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"If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

tags: death, loss, sisters
192 people liked it

"It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

135 people liked it

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

185 people liked it