Paula > Paula's Quotes

“Ella, when are you going to realize that you two belong together? Everyone who lays eyes on you can see it and is envious of it because that kind of love isn't supposed to exist."

"What kind of love are you talking about?"

"The kind of love that owns you. The kind where you know the other person inside and out. Where you can go through hell and back and still make it out ok.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Forever of Ella and Micha

“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“It’s a moment I’ll remember forever, because it belongs to me.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“I’m conflicted. On one hand, I want to stay in and catch up on The Vampire Diaries, but there’s this really awesome restaurant I’ve been wanting to try out.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“And then there are books, which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“He was such an asshole, and I loved him.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Opal

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou

“You have to take that risk, though, Grace. What good is living if you have no real joy?”
― J a Huss

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar