Selinda Jensen > Selinda's Quotes

“There’s no life-work balance. Okay? Get it? It’s all life. You get the same twenty-four hours as the next girl. Fill yours with what you love.”
― Lucy Score, The Christmas Fix

“The teaching of history was, traditionally, one of the most boring things ever invented. We white-washed our country’s doings, painted a bunch of white dudes as heroes, and swept everyone else’s good deeds under the rug of gender and race.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“We study history so we don’t make the same mistakes over and over again. So we can grow. Do better.”
― Lucy Score, Rock Bottom Girl

“You fell in love with that woman’s drive. Her passion. Her spark for life. Her light. What if, rather than throwing that all away, you became her suncatcher? Take that light and amplify it in every way you can. Bask in it.”
― Elsie Silver, A Photo Finish

“No. I loved her like the tide loved the moon, vital to sustain the life within.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“Because my father doesn’t agree with me. His style is more about fear and intimidation. The withholding of basic needs. After all, if everyone is too happy, how would he control them?”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Rule of the Aurora King

“Never underestimate the enduring fragility of a man who suffers from a lack of confidence.”
― Nisha J. Tuli, Fate of the Sun King

“My therapist says being consistent is the only way to deal with someone like him. That what you allow is what you teach. I have to set clear boundaries and enforce them.”
― Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World

“When you show me the type of love you need, I learn how to give it to you.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“Don’t be sorry for showing me how you feel. Being vulnerable with each other is how we learn to be the best versions of ourselves as partners.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“I’ve not ever been a partner,” I bite out. “I’ve been the pretty trophy on your arm. The story you tell to make you look like a family man. I’ve played every damn part you asked me to play to make you look good”
― Becka Mack, Fall with Me

“to people whose opinions shouldn’t matter, and somewhere along the way I forgot who I was, who I was supposed to be.”
― Becka Mack, Fall with Me

“being cheated on certainly has a way of bringing all your perceived flaws to the forefront of your mind, of making you feel more worthless of love than you’ve ever, ever felt.”
― Becka Mack, Fall with Me

“The old white men who run this country are scared. And people do stupid, ugly things when they’re scared.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“But they’re counting on their power and our fear.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“being a part of the apparent breakdown of American honor.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“Change the world.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“right and wrong, good and evil, the American myth of equality and justice and honor.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“you don’t have to be perfect to be lovable.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“The people we love help teach us who we are.”
― Katherine Center, The Bodyguard

“He’d mastered the art of emotional seduction by patience,”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Reality of Everything

“I realized that Will wasn’t a sea of grief anymore. He was a mountain in my life,”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Reality of Everything

“Everyone shows up when they’re needed,” I argued. She snorted. “No, they don’t. They like to think they do, but people who show up are rare.”
― Rebecca Yarros, A Little Too Close

“Not unless we follow such dreams with action.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Children of Fallen Gods

“Love didn’t happen once, she realised. It happened every day, in little moments, in the quiet gaps between grand words, in the lingering touches, in the hope it promised in the dark. Love was something that breathed and expanded, that was made and remade, again and again, reforged only to become stronger.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“The problem with mankind is we too often find our souls to be a fair price for power.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“He knew that, to control his people, he had to control the information they had access to. Hide the truth from people, and you kept them in the dark. Burn the books, and you got to rewrite history and the future.”
― Callie Hart, Brimstone