Liv > Liv's Quotes

“That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I notice, once again, that company that’s not the right fit for you is so much lonelier than being happily alone.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Last Night

“We are the books we read and the things we love.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“Grief had a way of infiltrating everything, even when you were prepared for it.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“I lost my wife twenty years ago. Sometimes I feel as if I have lived without her for a decade, and sometimes I feel as though I lost her just a minute before.

I write lost, but I have grown to hate that expression. She was not a set of keys or a hat. Losing her is the equivalent of saying that I have misplaced my lungs.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here.”
― Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue

“I loved you,” he whispers.
“I know,” I say.
Hurt eyes move across my face. “You broke my heart.”
“I know that, too.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“Beauty isn’t an arrangement of features, even features as perfect as Finlay Hart’s, it’s a feeling. This is how it feels in the split second you suddenly become aware that you’re falling in love with someone.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

“Just like a murderer jumps out of nowhere in an alley, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Do you think we’d ever be friends if we met now?” “No, I don’t think so.” “Me neither.” “Sort of magic, isn’t it? To know that we could meet the most exciting person in the world, but they’d never be able to recreate the history you and I have. What a unique superpower we have over each other.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy.”
― Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.

I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Society tells women that they have to be responsible for the emotional health of their relationships and then tells them they're weak for feeling emotions. What kind of message is that?”
― Alisha Rai, Hate to Want You

“What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Sixth Wedding

“The most important friendships in my life all came down to a decision made by strangers, chance.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“This is the saddest part of any day, when too much time has passed to create happiness while it is still light out.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“My heart has just expired and my mind has gone to hell for the day.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Bold of you to assume that the real me is my best hand.”
“Foolish of you to think it isn’t.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Physics is like sex: it may yield practical results, but often that’s not why we do it.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically