Josie > Josie's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“But Benji still grins, that damn smile that’s as much a bird’s as a bear’s. Then he says:

"You’re already in love with me. You just haven’t realized it yet.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”
― Tomaz Salamun

“This is what I want: I want to grab my brother's hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I love humanity but I hate people.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Who decides which… deaths are tragic and which are not? Who decides what is big and what is little? Is it a matter of numbers or physical mass or intelligence? If you are a little creature or a little person dying alone and in pain, you may not remember or know that you are little. If you are in enough pain, you may not remember who or what you are; you may know only your suffering, which is immense… What decides – common sense? Can common sense dictate such things?”
― Mary Gaitskill, Lost Cat

“Searching my heart for its true sorrow,
This is the thing I find to be:
That I am weary of words and people,
Sick of the city, wanting the sea”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second April

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Secrets are everywhere. Some humans are crammed full of them. How do they not explode? It seems to be a hallmark of the human species: abysmal communication skills.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I laughed. ‘For a policeman, you’re very romantic.’
‘For an artist, you’re very afraid,’ he said.”
― Bethan Roberts, My Policeman

“Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn't understand what was happening to me. And it was only when I began to feel actual, physical pain every time you left the room that it finally dawned on me: I was in love, for the first time in my life. I knew it was hopeless, but that didn't matter to me. And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. Tell me what to do. Show me how to behave. I'll do anything you say.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses

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

“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Occasionally, Fate pulls itself together again and Time is always waiting.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“This is not where our story ends, he writes. This is only where it changes.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“It doesn't look like anything special, like it contains an entire world, though the same could be said of any book.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Maybe it was something I haven’t thought about yet because like my mum said, I don’t know anything. All I know is I don’t know anything at all.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“I think it helps to get whatever it is inside your head and put it down on paper so you can look at it and then it seems smaller than before.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“but that was the thing about light, I said, you don't need a lot of it. The other way round, a sliver of dark in a sunny garden, you'd never spot it, the light's stronger and quicker and the eye goes looking for it. If you think of the world like that, it doesn't seem as bad a place.”
― Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“darling, dearest
i'm fighting for your kind of quiet”
― MediaWhore, Tired Tired Sea

“I fell in love with you a little bit, in that stupid way where you completely make up a fictional version of the person you’re looking at and fall in love with that person.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory

“There are two kinds of people, he thought: the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid you’re going to break them, and the people you don’t want to touch because you’re afraid they’ll break you.”
― Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory