Hannah Yoder > Hannah's Quotes

“How did any of us get here? Hmm? And is it even that important? One could argue that all that really matters is that we learn to deal with where we are at any given moment, not where we were.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Take comfort, then, that whatever you choose in life has importance beyond yourself. Importance, even, on a cosmic scale.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Because that’s what we do. We fall down, and then we help each other back up again.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Sometimes,” Falconi said, “everything just turns to crap, and there’s nothing we can do about it.” He looked at her. “No one’s to blame. Or maybe everyone’s to blame.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“The truth is you don’t want to. It makes you feel good to blame yourself. You know why?” Kira shook her head, mute. “Because it gives you a sense of control. The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can’t change.” Falconi paused, his eyes hard and glittering. “Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn’t do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you’ll never be able to fully recover.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“keep them to remind me of what I can survive. Of what I have survived. If I’m having a rough time, I look at my arms, and I know I’ll get through whatever problem I’m dealing with. Life’s not going to break me. It can’t break me. It might kill me, but nothing it throws at me is going to make me give up.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“when air, food, and shelter are assured, only two things matter. Work and companionship. To be alone and without purpose is to be the living dead.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“For a moment, anger and frustration threatened to overwhelm her, but then she beat them back. No. She wasn’t going to allow herself to get worked up over things she couldn’t change. Not this time. Whatever was going to happen, she’d strive to face it with a sense of self-control. Things were difficult enough without making them harder on herself.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Could I advise myself in the past, prior to my transition, I would tell myself to make the most of what I had while I had it. Too often we don’t appreciate the value of something until it has slipped our grasp.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Suffering was inescapable, but to care for another and to be cared for in turn—that was the closest any person might come to heaven.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“she had learned, sometimes you had to make a choice, any choice, even when it wasn’t clear which path was the right one. Life rarely provided such a luxury.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“The key is to start small. Focus on solving problems you can answer. Build some dry ground to stand on. And after you’ve put in the work, and if you’re lucky, the mystery of the overarching question becomes knowable. Like stepping slowly back from a photomontage to witness the ultimate image revealing itself.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn’t lead to truth.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“If you strip away all the trappings of personality and lifestyle, what are the core components that make me me?”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Until everything topples, we have no idea what we actually have, how precariously and perfectly it all hangs together.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Are you turning yourself into what I want? Is that why whenever I’m with you, I . . .” His voice trails off, or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe I’ve just reached critical mass.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“Want is a kind of thief. It’s a door in your heart, and once you know it’s there, you’ll spend your life longing for whatever’s behind it.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I’ve come to believe that God’s timing is perfect. You arrived at precisely the time that was right for you.”
― Debbie Macomber, Must Love Flowers

“He fit so perfectly into the love story I’d imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“Falling’s the part that takes your breath away. It’s the part when you can’t believe the person standing in front of you both exists and happened to wander into your path. It’s supposed to make you feel lucky to be alive, exactly when and where you are.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“do we live by our past, or do we live by what is to come? Do we choose to waste time looking behind to things that have already happened and cannot be changed, or do we keep our sight forward on what we can see?”
― Rebecca Ross, Ruthless Vows

“Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. . . . Keep me from lying to myself. . . . Help me abandon my shameful ways. . . . I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.”
― Francine Rivers, The Lady's Mine

“Lies told often enough can start to sound true,”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Every man who holds a sword in his hand, holds murder in his heart.”
― James Islington, The Shadow of What Was Lost

“Everyone has a darker nature, Caeden. Everyone. Good men fear it, and evil men embrace it. Good men are still tempted to do the wrong thing, but they resist those urges.”
― James Islington, The Shadow of What Was Lost

“But perhaps it’s still not free will as you would think of it. That’s the natural arrogance of man, sadly. We want to believe that free will means complete independence from the plans of our creator.”
― James Islington, The Shadow of What Was Lost

“Because it strikes me that a man needs to know what he believes before he can really know who he is.”
― James Islington, The Shadow of What Was Lost

“We each have our own battles that must be fought.” He paused. “But you must fight them, my friend. You cannot hide from them. Otherwise you will never be more than you are.”
― James Islington, The Shadow of What Was Lost