Nikki Buchanan > Nikki's Quotes

“It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.

But no one does.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca

“What did you do?"
"We did it together. Just as we always do.”
― Rachel Gillig, One Dark Window

“You are about to begin reading a new book, and to be honest, you are a little tense. The beginning of a novel is like a first date. You hope that from the first lines an urgent magic will take hold, and you will sink into the story like a hot bath, giving yourself over entirely. But this hope is tempered by the expectation that, in reality, you are about to have to learn a bunch of people's names and follow along politely like you are attending the baby shower of a woman you hardly know. And that's fine, goodness knows you've fallen in love with books that didn't grab you in the first paragraph. But that doesn't stop you from wishing they would, from wishing they would come right up to you in the dark of your mind and kiss you on the throat.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“The carousel’s over now,” he tells her quietly. “This time your family is waiting for you.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?"
Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me."
"Same," Raffy says.
I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“I know it hurts, but just think, now you know what it feels like for a man with a cold”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“So many office situations show no regard for people with anxiety, yet we’re the bad guys if we can’t cope.”
― Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Angry is just a pen name for sad,” Janet had explained. “In my experience, nine times out of ten if you are kind to the angry person, you will calm them down and find out what is really going on with them.”
― Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

“Love is not to never fight. Love is always making up.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Answer Is No

“Enjoy the stories of other people's lives, but don't forget to live your own.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“I had to remember that not everyone over-thought everything the way I did. Wouldn’t it be amazing to live like that? To not carry that burden around with you. To not feel constantly overwhelmed and overstimulated and second-guess every little thing.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“I will however accept your invitation to be invited and never come. That sounds like an excellent time. I also enjoy not answering calls, not networking, never leaving the house, and hanging out with my dog.”
― Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly

“She’s fifteen, above the age of consent, and he’s seventeen, but he’s still “the boy” in every conversation. She’s “the young woman”.

Words are not small things.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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

“If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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

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

“Mom. You taught me that I don't have to have dreams. I can have goals.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

“Our children never warn us that they’re thinking of growing up, one day they’re just too big to want to hold our hand, it’s just as well we never know when the last time is going to be or we’d never let go.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Motherhood demands pieces of yourself, Hannah would say. Your body, your solitude, at worst your mental health. All that giving and giving and giving away can come at a cost, and one morning you might wake up to realize you’ve lost yourself and can no longer mother at all. Then, Hannah would tell her dear grown-up daughter, you must make a different kind of sacrifice, by letting go of being the giver and the caretaker, and learning to ask for help.”
― Hadley Leggett, All They Ask Is Everything

“I keep my thoughts to myself because silence cannot be misquoted.”
― Alice feeney, Beautiful Ugly

“There are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You’re just trying to make it to the other end, and while you’re in it, there’s nothing to either side. Only the way forward. You know, the tunnel. Maybe when you find a way out, you can look around, but until then …”
― Travis Baldree, Bookshops & Bonedust