Bryanna Woodman > Bryanna's Quotes

“The only hell I’m afraid of is, when I die, the man I ended up as…meets the man I could have been.”
― Nick Bare, 25 Hours a Day: Going One More to Get What You Want

“And if I have anything else to say to you it is this: do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Perfectionism is not self-improvement. Perfectionism is, at its core, about trying to earn approval and acceptance. Most perfectionists were raised being praised for achievement and performance (grades, manners, rule-following, people-pleasing, appearance, sports). Somewhere along the way, we adopt this dangerous and debilitating belief system: I am what I accomplish and how well I accomplish it.”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?”
― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection

“When did I lose that? The delight of success? When did winning become something I needed in order to survive? Something I did not enjoy having, so much as panic without?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Everything we achieve is ephemeral. We have it, and the next second it's gone. You had that record, and you may lose that record. Or you may defend it now and lose it in two years all over again. I wish you'd accept that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“One man's bitch is another woman's hero.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“My ambition has long felt oppressive. It is not a joy—it is a master that I must answer to, a smoke that descends into my life, making it hard to breathe. It is only my discipline, my willingness to push myself harder, that has been my way through.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future... if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again... fall in love with me.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
― Kiera Cass, The Selection

“You are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“What if tomorrow never comes?” I whispered. “Then, my darling boy, we’ll make the best of today.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Don’t baby me. I’m not your home. People don’t ruin their homes; they build them. They cherish them.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“You only get one life, Luna. One stab at this thing called happiness. Why deprive yourself of things you want just because they weren’t given to you the way you hoped for them to come?”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Hit-and-run or struck by lightning—a death was a death.

A heartbreak was a heartbreak.

Pain was pain.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“You didn’t do it on purpose. We break things all the time. It’s called life. If you don’t break, you don’t live. You don’t move. You don’t try. You don’t take chances. Breaking is a part of living. FUCKING JOSH will move on. He has to. You need to understand that sometimes, the consequences of your actions are destructive. You need to forgive yourself and make sure the other person knows you’re sorry. You can’t do more than that. You’re not responsible for someone else’s happiness.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“Know what the problem with your generation is? You refuse to understand that love has a price. That’s what makes it significant, pungent, rich. It costs you anger, jealousy, heartbreak, time, money, health…”


“Food for thought—is she worth it? You have to pay your dues, you see.”

“When you refuse to pay your dues to love, sometimes the price goes up. There’s an inflation, and you end up losing more than you’d bargained.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“I recognized the sound of her running away from me like it was my first language.
And I vowed that night to stop doing the chasing.”
― L.J. Shen, Broken Knight

“...we often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It's boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm - and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Remember, love that doesn't include honesty doesn't deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.”
― Kiera Cass, The Elite

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I feel like everyone fakes who they really are, when deep down we're all equal amounts of screwed up. Some of us are just better at hiding it than others.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I love it when the night sky makes me feel insignificant".”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us