April Avelino > April's Quotes

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture

“For the rest of my life, I'll dream of hearing your voice breathe my name.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“She is not my equal; she is my better. She is my sticky little leaf.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture

“Truth sets one free, but love casts out fear.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture

“I found my hope when I found you.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“How long did you want me to stay?”

“Forever.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Inferno

“I want to be your first and your last. I love you, Julianne. I offer you my heart and my life.”
― Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Rapture

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
― Paulo Coelho

“I thought I'd broken you."
"Broken? Me? Oh no, Ana. Just the opposite."
He reaches out and takes my hand. "You're my lifeline'" he whispers.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I'd like to bite that lip.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey

“But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.”
― Cherrie Lynn, Rock Me

“The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you’re too afraid of failure to take a chance.”
― Shana Norris, The Boyfriend Thief

“I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating
guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for
the ears.”
― Swati Avasthi, Split

“It's weird when someone gets you understands what you would never say not even to yourself.”
― Swati Avasthi, Split

“Scars are proof we can can survive”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?”
― Megan Hart, Dirty

“Did you really want to die?"
"No one commits suicide because they want to die."
"Then why do they do it?"
"Because they want to stop the pain.”
― Tiffanie DeBartolo, How to Kill a Rock Star

“Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on.”
― Kristen Ashley, Heaven and Hell

“You got one life, never use it just to breathe.”
― Kristen Ashley, Heaven and Hell

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

“I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden