Skylar Alexander > Skylar Alexander's Quotes

“The key is in learning how to live a healthy, satisfying, and serene life without being dependent on another person for happiness.”
― Robin Norwood, Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change

“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“We teach our kids the importance of good dental care, proper nutrition, and financial responsibility. How many of us teach our children to monitor their own brain health, or know how to do it ourselves?”
― Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

“If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.”
― Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid

“After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?'
I know EXACTLY where I will be in fifteen years: in my pool, at my mansion, counting my money. But there weren't any check boxes for THAT option.”
― Jeff Kinney, Rodrick Rules

“don’t you dare become smaller to make room for others. don’t you dare shrink back into the shadows. don’t you dare wither while everyone else blooms.

here’s an indisputable fact: you matter.”
― Amanda Lovelace, Shine your Icy Crown

“Maybe we should do things because we love them, not because we’ve always done them that way.”
― Christina Lauren, In a Holidaze

“The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give.  Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.”
― Eric Thomas, The Secret to Success

“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

“It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.”
― tamara ireland stone, Time After Time

“I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.”
― Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

“You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

“Authenticity is an “owning” of all experience, including emotions and thoughts that are not socially acceptable.”
― Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia

“Say!
In the dark?
Here in the dark!
Would you, could you, in the dark?”
― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham

“Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.”
― Chris Crowe, Mississippi Trial, 1955

“Long as you remember, ain't nothin' really gone.”
― Sharon M. Draper, Copper Sun

“Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.”
― Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“There ARE people who won't customarily eat an entire row of cookies, or hear food calling their name from other rooms, or who don't grind up food in the garbage disposal for fear of eating it, or get it back out of the garbage so they could eat it. Of course, my binge eating was just a cover-up for the larger issue: Trying to fill the emptiness”
― SARK, Transformation Soup: Healing for the Splendidly Imperfect

“She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near.”
― John Steinbeck, The Pearl

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“The bad stuff always rose to the top of the brain.”
― Louis Sachar, Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

“Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me NOW!
It is fun to have fun
But you have to know how.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat

“Love is different from most things. If I gave my piece of chalk to someone, then I wouldn't have it anymore. But when I give my love to someone, I end up with more love than I started with. The more love you give away, the more you have left.”
― Louis Sachar, Wayside School Is Falling Down

“You can’t make people stop loving each other just because a law says it’s wrong,” I said.”
― Liz Kessler, The Tail of Emily Windsnap

“We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.”
― Stephen King, Cujo

“You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.”
― Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

“I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe