Michaela > Michaela's Quotes

“I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. aa”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Fault! Asperger’s isn’t a fault. It’s a variant. It’s potentially a major advantage. Asperger’s syndrome is associated with organization, focus, innovative thinking, and rational detachment.”
― Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

“The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles--preferably of his own making--in order to triumph. A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe, which, after all, is based on conflict and opposition, the irresistible force meeting the unmovable object.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“It wasn't until I had children that I really understood what love meant.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!”
― Emily Giffin, The One & Only

“so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.”
― Emily Giffin, The One and Only

“I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.”
― Ruth Reichl, Delicious!

“...justice comes in many forms.”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Everybody has a scar...”
― Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“We are so busy with bullshit, we fail to stop and recognize the profound. So busy with brushing teeth and buying groceries and washing dishes and watching YouTube and checking Facebook and texting and putting on makeup and driving to here or there and looking for lost keys, it starts to feel like what we are really doing is hiding from how totally fucking scary life is.”
― Jamie Kain, The Good Sister

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Funny how it works out though that when you expect nothing from a person, they might just give you everything you didn't know you wanted.”
― Jamie Kain, The Good Sister

“Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ...
Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump.
Maybe, just maybe, it's all a choice.
(Josh Matteson)”
― Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

“...purple - the color of royalty and holiness and wealth.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“...time is a mother's enemy.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“...the knowledge that life comes from between our legs, and that life costs blood.”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“I guess that's the only advantage of having cancer - it teaches you every day you live with it that life just isn't fucking fair, and there's not a thing you can do about it, so you might as well just get over yourself and appreciate shit.”
― Jamie Kain, The Good Sister

“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.'
'John Lennon,' I say with a sigh. 'My mother is a huge fan.'
'So then you must know that every day, in every way, it's getting better.”
― Jamie Kain, The Good Sister

“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.”
― Allie Brosh

“We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.”
― Heather Gudenkauf, One Breath Away

“That's the wonderful thing about the human heart, there's room enough for all kinds of love.”
― Heather Gudenkauf, One Breath Away

“On their deathbed, nobody ever wishes they'd spent more time at the office.”
― Graeme Simsion

“I have a strong aversion to Twitter, and yet there is a social obligation that forces me to pop in and spy on celebrities now and then. I don’t get Twitter. It’s impossible to follow conversation threads, and it’s too easy to spend hours and hours clicking on random names, and the next thing you know, you've become infatuated with Tweet photos from the Kardashians.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love