Chris > Chris's Quotes

“You can’t take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I don’t want to kiss a stranger,” Cath would answer. “I’m not interested in lips out of context.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I’m scared of everything. And I’m crazy. Like maybe you think I’m a little crazy, but I only ever let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and socially inept, I’m a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“I am the moth and he is the flame, and I’m going to get burned. I know.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“What kind of parties does she go to—cupcake parties?"

"I think she meant beer."

"Oh, right.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“That’s ridiculous, Roland,” Mom says. “This is Louisiana, we don’t have basements because of the water level.”
― Leah Rae Miller, The Summer I Became a Nerd

“So love is possible at the Loony Bin. Or, at least, lust.”
― Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon

“Get Well Soon. People sent me get well soon cards while I was in a mental hospital. There were fluffy little bunnies, floaty rainbows, and even a religious card. I could understand that Hallmark probably doesn’t make “Get Sane Soon” cards, but still. Was I not well before? Am I well now? Who decides?”
― Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon

“I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“He reminded himself again that he took no true pleasure in her pain.  He was simply trying to spread the message of the emptiness that had consumed him and make people realize how easily dreams shattered.”
― Ira Gansler, The Things in the Darkness

“But now I felt trapped, like a homeless person who’d been given their dream home only to suffer from intense wanderlust because we always want something until we have it.”
― Julie Murphy, Side Effects May Vary

“But I wondered sometimes, the way your mind asks those big questions, like whether or not there’s a god or how a girl can think she’s ugly one day and pretty the next.”
― Julie Murphy, Side Effects May Vary

“It was the thing I planned out in my head in those moments between asleep and awake when my brain was unable to tell the difference between dreams and reality.”
― Julie Murphy, Side Effects May Vary

“I’d always heard that when you truly love someone, you’re happy for them as long they’re happy. But that’s a lie. That’s higher-road bullshit. If you love someone so much, why the hell would you be happy to see them with anyone else? I didn’t want the easy kind of love. I wanted the crazy love, the kind of love that created and destroyed all at the same time.”
― Julie Murphy, Side Effects May Vary

“It’s scary when it’s real. When it’s not just thinking about a person, but, like, having a real live person in front of you, with, like, expectations. And wants.”
― Jenny Han

“And I’m certain, I’m so suddenly certain that everything is exactly the way it’s supposed to be, that I don’t have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn’t have to be forever.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“You can be Han Solo,” he said, kissing her throat. “And I’ll be Boba Fett. I’ll cross the sky for you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“She only came back when she felt like it, anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down déjà vu.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence. And so I closed my eyes and tried.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“I pictured her tragically; it never once ocurred to me to picture her as the tragedy.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“You’re afraid? But that’s what life is. There are bad surprises, yes. Awful surprises sometimes. But what makes the good surprises so good is that they’re unexpected.”
― A.L. Player, Class of '98

“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Some time later, she leaned over and kissed me. It felt just like all those songs and poems had promised it would. It felt wonderful. Like being struck by lightning.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“but if you keep focusing on why you have it so bad, you’ll never realize how you could have it so good.”
― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“do you think that there’s any minute in any day when i’m not aware of how big i am? do you think there’s a single minute that goes by when i’m not thinking about how other people see me?”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Because, all things considered, researching the mating habits of squid didn’t sound so terrible anymore.”
― Autumn Doughton, Steering the Stars

“You can’t focus on what you should or shouldn’t write or who you should or shouldn’t be like. Just write for yourself and eventually you’ll get to that place you want to be.”
― Autumn Doughton, Steering the Stars