Holly Adams > Holly's Quotes

“There are certain people who appreciate your vulnerability and certain people who will try to use it against you. But they can’t if you don’t let them.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“You have to allow yourself to be vulnerable if you want to receive anything good this world has to offer.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“We can never get back time—it’s one of life’s biggest tragedies but also one of its greatest motivators. If things were not finite, there would be no need to ever evaluate what is most important to us.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“fear. If you are not mindful, you can spend a whole lifetime weighing your options.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“It’s been a long time since she’s had this kind of feeling about a person, the kind of comfortable chemistry where just watching them do something mundane is attractive.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“There is a kind of bravery that you must possess to come to this city with nothing and no one, a certain amount of having nothing to lose.”
― Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This

“I don’t know how to talk along the surface of things, but I also don’t want to unearth the ugly stuff, over and over again, for people who are just passing through my life.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Let me guess: I’m a clueless fool,” I say. He starts the car. “No, just a sweet, naive, beautiful little innocent, raised in captivity by a man who loves wheatgrass.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I close my eyes and breathe him in, and it’s not complicated: I want him, I like him, and I care about him enough to push those first two thoughts aside.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“why can’t I seem to do the same thing with my father? Why can’t I stop missing the dad I never had?”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“All those moments throughout the days, weeks, months that don’t get marked on calendars with hand-drawn stars or little stickers. Those are the moments that make a life.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father’s sake. But to be honest, I’m not the forgiving type.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“I immediately wonder if this will be his strategy in the Games. To appear weak and frightened, to reassure the other tributes that he is no competition at all, and then come out fighting.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“But I hate Effie Trinket’s comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Possibly Peeta is trying to make a good impression on him, to be his favorite once the Games begin.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“So I’m pondering the reason why he insists on taking care of Haymitch and all of a sudden I think, It’s because he’s being kind. Just as he was kind to give me the bread.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Prim was thrilled to have her back, but I kept watching, waiting for her to disappear on us again. I didn’t trust her. And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. Prim forgave her, but I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It’s hard to hate my prep team. They’re such total idiots. And yet, in an odd way, I know they’re sincerely trying to help me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Days of hunting and gathering for this one meal and even then it would be a poor substitution for the Capitol version.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“And then he gives me a smile that seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“It’s exhilarating and I’m tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn’t.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“But if anyone had asked, he would have told them that he never lived before he met her. And not after either.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Because—honestly—neither party is great these days, and when you personalize something to the extent many people do in politics, any time anyone questions something the party does, it can feel like they’re questioning you, and that’s just plain unhealthy.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“Mortality is unbearably confronting, so much so that lots of people spend their whole lives trying to live as though it doesn’t chain them like it does the rest of us.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“And then I swallow, which feels embarrassing, so tighten my grip on the steering wheel, because I clearly don’t have one on this situation.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will

“His kisses are commas.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will