Elizabeth > Elizabeth's Quotes

“I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“People never like me and I never like people”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I guess that’s my answer. A sister is someone you fight with and fight for. Tooth and nail.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn’t have to be so terrifying. That’s on people, not the world.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“The world loved to take a beautiful woman and exclaim at the charm of her single imperfection”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Deities themselves had changed over time, but the act of devotion had not.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“The secret to a beautiful death is living a beautiful life.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“Don’t let the best parts of life pass you by because you’re too scared of the unknown.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“It’s easy to glamorize the path you didn’t take.”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“I was still here, still living. But was I just existing out of habit?”
― Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

“A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used again and again to connote the highest intimacy. True sisterhood is not the same as friendship. You don't choose each other and there is no furtive period of getting to know each other. You are a part of each other, right from the start. Look at an umbilical cord—tough, sinuous, unlovely, yet essential—and compare it to a friendship bracelet of brightly woven thread. That is the difference between a sister and a friend.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“believe in nothing but a woman’s capacity to survive disappointment”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“You never have to explain yourself to sisters.”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters