Joli > Joli's Quotes

“You sure are willing to go through a lot for cigarette smoking and hand holding, " I said.
"You need to try and remember that.”
― Lisa Burstein

“Words are messy,
but sometimes,
words are all you've got
to show what matters most.”
― Ann Burg, All the Broken Pieces

“I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

“[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.”
― Richard Peck

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.”
― Laura Wiess, Ordinary Beauty

“You will always be my always.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.”
― David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Isn't that what your memory was about, Bria? Losing control?"

I pause. "I never knew memories were about anything. Besides the obvious. You make them sound like dreams -- subject to interpretation."

"I think the two are more related than we realize. It's all in how our minds frame them. How we decide what -- and how -- we remember.”
― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“You, yes, you, linger inside my heart
The same you who stopped us before we could start.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who hadn't been where I'd been.”
― Mary Stewart Atwell, Wild Girls

“Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

“Being with you let me feel, feel everything, and I needed that. I remembered better with you, I healed better with you, and you made … you made everything real.”
― Jessica Park, Left Drowning

“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Everything will be okay. Good things last, and the bad things will fade away. So, go find your good.”
― Jessica Park, Clear

“Once we're safely out of earshot, I crouch down and tilt his head up to mine. "Tim, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to confuse you like that."

He looks down at his boots. "It's okay."

"We should have told you right away that we're just friends."

"I still would've been confused." He pauses. Says confused a second time, correcting the lisp that tends to sneak back in when he's not concentrating.

"Why?"

He gazes up at me with those pale green eyes, a mysterious blend of innocent and wise. "Because Colin loves you.”
― Claire Kells, Girl Underwater

“And it's a little different with every guy, so it's kind of hard to generalize—but if I had to describe the feeling of a crush, I'd say this: you just finished running a mile, and you have to throw up, and you're starving, but no food seems appealing, and your brain becomes fog, and you also have to pee. It's this close to intolerable. But I like it.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“So, maybe I should let my heart break, just to prove that my heart can take it.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“Maybe memories should be left the way they are.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“We are perfect in our imperfection.”
― Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“When someone close to you dies, the memories and recollections of them are painful. It isn't until the fifth stage of grief that the memories of them stop hurting as much; when the recollections become positive. When you stop thinking about the person's death, and remember all of the wonderful things about their life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“A hug is a display of love that begins on the physical end of the spectrum but bleeds into the emotional end of the spectrum if you let it, if you give into it. It’s the most innocent, pure form of physical human connection there is. It only takes two willing people, who don’t even have to know each other, to participate. Two willing people who want that exchange. It’s so easy, but there are people who never get them. People who never get them,” she repeats softly, it’s a confession.”
― Kim Holden, So Much More

“The most important time to listen is when words are missing, that’s when hearts cry out the loudest.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side

“People aren’t perfect. It’s not about loving them when it’s easy and convenient; it’s about loving them even more when it’s hard.”
― Kim Holden, The Other Side