Amy > Amy's Quotes

“You couldn’t omit your own child from the story of your life, like it was no big deal.”
― Lisa Ko, The Leavers

“I wanted to wrench the stars from the sky and fling them at our feet.”
― Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me

“Like most girls, she’d already learned that pretty exposes you and pretty hides you and like most girls, she hadn’t yet learned how to navigate the difference.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“The sun felt so loud, it stood in for conversation.”
― Lucy Tan, What We Were Promised

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“But what he felt for Amira—it was as though she had been tucked in a compartment in his heart that hadn’t changed, and seeing her now he knew it never would: he could return to her at any age and feel for her the way he always had. He knew, with such certainty it shamed him, that it would not matter if he fell in love one day and married—Amira would continue to exist as a love entirely apart.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“Here, she was an uninvited guest in a home she didn’t want to disturb.”
― Natalia Sylvester, Everyone Knows You Go Home

“It had been winter for so long that the air didn’t hurt anymore.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“We spent so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized they were busy searching for the same things in us.”
― Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

“You want a place to be like it was in the book but it’s not a place in a book it’s just words.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Outside, the hummingbird’s whirring sounds almost like human breath. Its beak jabs into the pool of sugared water at the feeder’s base. What a terrible life, I think now, to have to move so fast just to stay in one place.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“His panel was on the digital divide,”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

“There ain’t no easier lie to tell folks than the one they wanna believe.”
― Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

“It is strange to go from being an only child to seeing someone wearing your own face.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I am so tired. The weight of my expendability is crushing.”
― Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper's Daughter

“You are barely grown,” George told him. “If you only knew the many wrongs awaiting you.”
― Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water