Angela > Angela's Quotes

“On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.”
― Felicity Huffman

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

“Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods.”
― Teri Hatcher, Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life

“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”
― Albert Einstein

“She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.”
― Angela Lam Turpin

“If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has. ”
― Charles Baxter

“Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different. ”
― Angela Lam Turpin

“There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.”
― Emily Giffin, Heart of the Matter

“One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.”
― Angela Lam Turpin

“The great weakness of the West is that it has nothing with which to inspire loyalty except wealth. But what is wealth? Another washing machine, a bigger car, a nicer house to live in? Not much to feed the spirit in all that.”
― John Burdett

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering.”
― Amy Greene, Bloodroot

“I am moonlighting for the Buddha.”
― John Burdett, Bangkok Haunts

“If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle

“What is the opposite of two?
A lonely me, a lonely you.”
― Richard Wilbur, Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
― Lena Dunham

“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
― Janet Evanovich

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome.”
― Jordan E. Rosenfeld

“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
― Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

“Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you “I’m not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.”
― Dr. Brene' Brown

“Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost

“The people who matter the most to us in the end, who teach us the most, are the people who make their worst mistakes with us.”
― Lan Samantha Chang, All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost