Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“You’ll never regret a decision more than the one you make out of fear. Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. Fear seeks to preserve itself, and the bigger you let your life and perspective and heart get, the less air you give fear to survive.”
― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

“You are not a creature of grief. You are not a congregation of wounds. You are not the sum of your losses. Your skin is not your scars. Your life is yours, and it can be new and wondrous. Remember that.”
― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light

“Life often won't freely give you moments of joy. Sometimes you have to wrench them away and cup them in your hands to protect them from the wind and rain.”
― Jeff Zentner, In the Wild Light