Calista > Calista's Quotes

“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.”
― Taylor Swift

“God gives us the ugliness so we don’t take the beautiful things in life for granted.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“It’s good to be kind to people, especially the people you love, because you never know what it’s like to walk in their shoes until one day you do. And by then, it’s often too late to make a real difference.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Sometimes your life falls to ash and you sift through, waiting for the pain to pass, looking for the remnants in the debris, something to save, when really all you need is right there, inside you.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“You can’t put your life on hold for somebody else, you know? Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy. And if you’re not, like, solid with yourself, how can you help somebody else?”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“A smart person once told me that life is working against us all the time, inside and outside us, in a thousand different and silent ways that are invisible to us, and there is nothing we can do about it. You just have to do the best you can and go on, and hope for the best.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Sometimes the sky is grey
Sometimes the day’s grey too
But behind every grey sky
There’s always some blue”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

“Someone I used to know said that’s the problem with adults. They just see kids as they want them to be, what they aren’t, and not as they are. I think about that all the time. Like, how much time and pain and suffering could be eliminated if you just accepted the kid in front of you and stopped trying to fix them. Maybe there is no “fixing.” Maybe there is just heartbreak and love and trying to help them stay alive, whatever it takes.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“And I wanted a hero who’d love her through her dark days, not despite them—because to me, that is the most romantic thing of all.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Weather Girl

“This book is about the bravery it takes for us to love someone when we all know how every love story ends.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“The people who love us the most have the power to hurt us the most, too.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Weather Girl

“We could all probably be a little more benevolent in life. We all live here, after all. We all share the same mighty good company of the stars at night, and everyone deserves kindness, and survival. Everyone deserves to be seen.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“I haven’t been home in years, but I feel that way with you.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“That's the funny thing about life. Extraordinary things can happen to ordinary people like you and me, but only if we open ourselves up enough to let them.”
― Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

“Everything new sounds ridiculous until someone makes it happen.”
― Mike Gayle, All the Lonely People

“Confidence comes from knowing that whatever the situation, you know you'll make the best of it. Confidence is certainty in your ability to rise.”
― Lucy Score, Maggie Moves On

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You’re the one who has to live your life. Don’t apologize to other people for the decisions you make for yourself.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“At some point, you have got to stop worrying so much about what everyone else needs and start thinking about what you need.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Statistics can't tell us what will happen, they can only tell us what might happen.”
― Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“You make broken things whole again. Me. You made me whole. And every time you smile at me, I feel like I hit the lottery again.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“If the ending is this painful, I don’t know if this was worth it all.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“Letting go isn’t about forgetting. It’s balancing moving forward with life, and looking back from time to time, remembering the people in it.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“The world keeps moving, no matter what happens to you.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“You are my entire world, Julie. And one day, maybe I’ll only be a small piece of yours. I hope you keep that piece.”
― Dustin Thao, You've Reached Sam

“All good things end, always. The trick is to enjoy them while they last.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order