Manderley > Manderley's Quotes

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

“Don’t go the way the world takes you, take the world the way you go.”
― Mathew Thomas

“That boy was going to make the world turn, and the stars would fall like rain.”
― Twist and Shout

“I can dig Elvis.”
― Dean Winchester

“The diner, a motorcycle, and Dean Winchester.”
― Twist and Shout

“He hadn’t been kissed like that in a long, long, time; maybe ever.”
― Twist and Shout

“Don't ever apologize for us.”
― Twist and Shout

“Something snagged at his heart when he thought of that; he didn’t want Dean to forget about him. It didn’t seem fair that Dean might get to brush him aside and Cas would remember him for the rest of his natural life.”
― Twist and Shout

“I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.”
― Castiel

“I prayed to you, Cas. Every night.”
― Dean Winchester Jensen Ackles

“You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“When life seems too cruel, and there seems too little love in it. When you feel you have failed. When you don't know what the point is. When you cannot go on. I want you to draw strength from me then. I want you to remember how much I cherished you, how I lived for you. When the world seems full of giants who dwarf you, when it feels like a struggle just to keep your head up, I want you to remember there is more to live for than mere achievement. It is worth something to be a good man. It cannot be worth nothing to do the right thing.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be content to stay where you were.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“Life is going to give you things to be angry at. I don’t want you to be consumed by that anger or forget how much you’re capable of.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“When I am gone, I want you to hear my voice in your head. Hear it when you most need to, when you feel most hopeless, when you feel most alone. When life seems too cruel, and there seems too little love in it. When you feel you have failed. When you don’t know what the point is. When you cannot go on. I want you to draw strength from me then. I want you to remember how much I cherished you, how I lived for you. When the world seems full of giants who dwarf you, when it feels like a struggle just to keep your head up, I want you to remember there is more to live for than mere achievement. It is worth something to be a good man. It cannot be worth nothing to do the right thing.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves