Chris > Chris's Quotes

“But knowing you’re good can only take you so far. At some point, you need someone else to see it, too. Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“All adults have days when we feel completely drained. When we no longer know quite what we spend so much time fighting for, when reality and everyday worries overwhelm us and we wonder how much longer we’re going to be able to carry on. The wonderful thing is that we can all live through far more days like that without breaking than we think. The terrible thing is that we never know exactly how many.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but not this person. This one we have always loved, we loved them before they even existed. No matter how well prepared they are, all moms and dads experience a moment of total shock, when the tidal wave of feelings first washed through them, knocking them off their feet. It's incomprehensible because there's nothing to compare it to. It's like trying to describe sand between your toes or snowflakes on your tongue to someone who's lived their whole life in a dark room. It sends the soul flying.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts:”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.”
― Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. ”
― Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

“This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers

“So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.”
― Anna Quindlen, Every Last One

“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Life is a cruel, cruel
thing, the way it picks and chooses who to bully. We’re
given these shitty circumstances and told by society that we, too, can live the American dream. But what they
don’t tell us is that dreams almost never come true.
It’s why they call it the American dream rather than
the American reality.
Our reality is that you’re dead, I’m in orientation for
a shitty job making minimum wage, and our daughter is
being raised by people who aren’t us.
Reality is depressing as fuck.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Maybe it doesn’t matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can. And in the off chance that the people we lose are still somehow able to hear us, maybe we should never stop talking to them.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Dogs know the good ones, Marie. Dogs always know.”
― K.A. Tucker, Running Wild

“She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

“Tragedy, accidents especially, rarely come with reasons why. Yet, we look for them everywhere. We blame. We deny. We carry guilt, regrets. Sometimes, and this is hard to accept but you must, it is simply that person's time to go. We are all here on borrowed time.”
― Heather Webber, At the Coffee Shop of Curiosities

“Well, I’ve got news for you, Lucian. No one feels worthy. Everyone feels like an imposter. It doesn’t matter what family you come from, your net worth, or how many powerful friends owe you favors. None of that is going to make you feel like you deserve to be here.” “Everyone? I find that hard to believe.” “The ones who don’t? The ones who think they deserve it all? Those are the ones you have to watch out for. Those are the ones who inflict the real damage. They’re the ones who don’t spend years in therapy trying to better themselves. They’re the ones who don’t bother asking themselves if they’re the good guy or the bad guy.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff –”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“If you learn from the times you go wrong, you can revel in the times you don’t.”
― Chris Whitaker, All The Colors of the Dark

“We made it a good one.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Onyx Storm

“The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― Liz Tomforde, The Right Move

“You have to fool yourself into thinking you already are the thing you want to become.”
― Clare Leslie Hall, Broken Country

“That God that my mom thinks she serves—he’s so much smaller than who I think the real one is. The real one—to me, he’s everywhere, in everything. And sure, maybe he speaks through the Bible. But also maybe he speaks through Narnia, and Harry Potter despite J. K. Rowling lately, and the trees, and science, and the stars, and black holes and the ocean and the way the sky looks sometimes, and you can feel it in your chest.”
― Jessa Hastings, The Conditions of Will