Kaitlyn Fleming > Kaitlyn's Quotes

“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“I think that sounds like the right move.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Mick Riva albums.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“I guess I find it pretty easy to look like nothing is happening when everything has changed.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“There are so many things that have to be done in a day, and none of them are for me, none of them are what I want.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“It is as if I have lived with a hard shell all over my body and you have cracked it and it has all fallen off. I am fresh again.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Do you ever feel like your life got away from you somehow? Lately, it feels like my whole life has a similar feeling to when you check the clock on a Saturday and realize it’s already half past four.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Often, I feel overwhelmed by this sinking feeling in my heart that I will never be enough.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“I’ve always been struck by the idea that you can’t be all that happy something has returned if it doesn’t go away in the first place.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Then I moved on to Daisy Jones”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Anyway, about the sandbar. It reminded me of you because you are my sandbar. I was lost at sea, and then you showed up. My dry land.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Evidence of the Affair

“Pressure is a privilege, Miller. Expectations are high because you’re successful. If you were average, no one would be waiting on bated breath for you.”
― Liz Tomforde, Caught Up

“I just don’t want you to be so afraid to fail at something new that it keeps you from finding your happiness”
― Liz Tomforde, Caught Up

“You keep me grounded, Kai, and I’ll keep you wild.”
― Liz Tomforde, Caught Up

“You can’t understand most of the important things from a distance, Bryan. You have to get close,” she told me all the time.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. It is about how easily we condemn people in this country and the injustice we create when we allow fear, anger, and distance to shape the way we treat the most vulnerable among us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“We’ve created laws that make writing a bad check or committing a petty theft or minor property crime an offense that can result in life imprisonment. We have declared a costly war on people with substance abuse problems.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“I had started arguing that we would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse. Yet we were comfortable killing people who kill,”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“My costume suggestion for you?” Dean chimes in. “Sexy nurse. Actually, fuck that, we live in the modern world—sexy doctor.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don’t know how you ever lived without them.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“Man, she really is pretty. Not drop-dead gorgeous or anything, but she has a fresh-faced, girl-next-door look that’s seriously appealing.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake

“Well, this has been fun, but I think I’ll go upstairs and kill myself now.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake

“I’m always going to be a reader. And I’m always going to be a romantic.”
― Annie Crown, Night Shift

“change is a choice we make every day, a thousand times a day. We choose to do this one thing better. Then the next. And the next. And the one after that.”
― Elle Kennedy, Bad Girl Reputation

“and I know the deepest fucking parts of her soul. Maybe she’s got herself fooled, but not me.”
― Elle Kennedy, Bad Girl Reputation