Lou > Lou's Quotes

“If this guy turns out to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer, promise me you’ll avenge my death?”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“For the first time, it occurred to me that it must be incredibly lonely to live forever while everyone around you aged and died. Maybe this is why he kept Reginald around. Having one constant from his past must be a comfort to him - even if said constant was also kind of an ass.”
― Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

“Because before you can worry about who’s in your passenger seat, you have to learn to drive yourself.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“I remember feeling like I was both too much and not enough.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“My sweet girls, let me tell you something. You will move through life and fall in love with many different people, and at some point, you will get your heart broken. It's unavoidable. The key is to not be afraid of the breaking. People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves.”
― Kelly Quindlen, She Drives Me Crazy

“Honestly, I wouldn’t have been surprised if someone thought she was completely wasted. I guess that’s what Beyonce meant by ‘drunk in love’.”
― Penny Jessup, The Alpha's Son

“What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“It's hard for me to understand why anyone wouldn't want you in their life.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“You want to watch the world burn?"

"Let me guess, you'll set it on fire?" I ask.

He chuckles, the sound vibrating through me settling into my bones.

"No, darling. I'll hand you the match, and stand at your back, watching you become queen of the ashes.”
― Emily McIntire, Hooked

“There's nothing out there to punish evil, no one out there to reward the righteous. We're all just adrift.”
― Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea

“I didn't truly believe it back then. That I deserved to be seen. I do now, though. I do. And being seen requires being open about myself.
Joan looks at me, soft, patient.

I want to be seen.”
― Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

“There's nothing like meeting someone and feeling comfortable with them instantly. That to me is the closest thing we have to magic in the world. The inexplicable connection that we just feel, right away, to some people, when with the vast sea of humans we have to work hard to get anywhere at all.”
― Cynthia So, If You Still Recognise Me

“I want to be with a person who orders my favorite cake just because it’s Tuesday. That might be my new working definition of love.”
― A.R. Capetta, The Heartbreak Bakery

“Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One.”
― Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

“Why is it me? Why do you always single me out?"

"Because," he says quietly. "You're the only person worth paying attention to.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Because beneath my apprehension is the stronger, deeply ingrained need to be liked. To be accepted. To be forgiven. To be recognized as good. I'll do anything to redeem myself.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Of course, if you...if you don't want to," he says into the silence, sliding his gaze away from me, "I can accept that. I won't bring it up again. I know I'm not....I know what I'm like. That I'm infuriating. And selfish. And cruel. I know I'm not perfect the way my brother is, and I manage to disappoint my parents every time. It's okay if you don't choose me, really—I never expected to be the first choice. I wouldn't blame you‚—"

"I do choose you."

He doesn't seem to hear me at first. He's still talking, rambling really, the words flowing out like rainwater. "I can't always say pretty things, and sometimes I tease you when really I just want you to look my way, and—wait." He stops. Even his breath freezes in his throat. "What...did you just say? Say it again."

"I choose you," I say quietly, glad for the shadows concealing my flushed cheeks. For the support of the wall behind me.
"You will always be my first choice, Julius Gong.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“It’s easier like that, isn’t it? [...] Never showing anyone who you really are. [...] That way if something goes wrong, if someone rejects you, then it’s not about you, is it? When you’re yourself, that’s when you’re exposed. Vulnerable.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“I went from wanting to kill you…to willing to kill for you.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“And what about your monsters, Josh Chen? Are they worse in your imagination or in reality?”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Hate

“Must’ve hit a lung. Whoopsie.”
― H.D. Carlton, Satan's Affair

“I’m not crazy!” I screech. I take a deep, calming breath and arrange the smile back on my face. “I’m just passionate.”
― H.D. Carlton, Satan's Affair

“Those therapists didn’t get it. I didn’t want to heal. I wanted to burn. I wanted to bleed. I wanted to feel every scorching lick of pain.

And soon, the person responsible for that pain would feel it too. One thousandfold.”

-pg. 63”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“People see what they want to see,” I countered. “Are there awful people in the world? Yes. Do awful things happen? Yes. But wonderful people exist and wonderful things happen too, and if you focus too much on the negative, you miss all the positive.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“Lies. All of it.

Every kiss, every word, every second that I had treasured... tainted.

My eyes burned with liquid fire. I couldn't breathe. Everything hurt, from the outside to the inside, as I sobbed terrible, wretched, soul-wracking tears.

[...]

Something inside me broke, and I was no longer only crying for my shattered heart but for the girl I use to be - the one who'd believed in light and love and the goodness of the world.

That girl was gone.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Love

“Life is a war zone, princess. The sooner you understand that, the safer you'll be.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“There's more to life than trying not to die.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Games

“So what's the meaning of life?" Angie says.
"To be happy," Jamie says immediately.
"Really?" Noah says. "I was thinking it was to do good or something."
[...]
"Isn't that the same as being happy?" Brooke says.
"Well, that's just one kind of happiness," Jamie says. "I'm talking about having lots of different kinds of happiness."
"But you don't think we're supposed to make the world better?" Noah says.
"Of course we are," Jamie says. "That's another kind of happiness."
[...]
"I think it's to truly love somebody before we die," Brooke says.
[...]
"I think," I say, "I think we're supposed to experience as much beauty as we can."
"Isn't that the same as happiness too?" Jaime says. [...]
"No, because sometimes sad things are beautiful," I say. "Like when someone dies."
"That isn't beautiful. That just sucks," Jamie says.
"You don't understand what I mean," I say.
[...]
"But we aren't here to suffer," Jamie says.
"I don't think that." I say.
"But you think we're here for beautiful things and you think sadness is beautiful?"
"It can be," I say.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“I add up again all of the things that I want from life. There is real life and then there are books. I try to puzzle out what is real and what isn't, what I can have and what I never will.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me