Kat > Kat's Quotes

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can’t quite see. Either way, it’s the same story.”
― Phil Klay, Redeployment

“When you're walking home at night, do you even get creeped out and even though it's silly and embarrassing you just want to run home?"
It seemed too secret and personal to admit to virtual stranger, but I told her, "Yeah, totally."
For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, "Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

“Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.”
― Jojo Moyes

“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“I wished for her,” he says.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.”
― Jennifer Close, Girls in White Dresses

“You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Revenge is living well, without you.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Someday, you may think of marrying. Pick someone who thinks you're the only person in the room.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“Most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“The words you can't find, you borrow.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters