D. King > D.'s Quotes

“Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“I knew the second I met you
that there was something about you I needed. Turns out it
wasn’t something about you at all. It was just you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.”
― J.K. Rowling

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry...although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?”
“For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!”
From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
“After all this time?”
“Always,” said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
― Hilary Duff

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.”
― Jennifer O'Neill, Inspirational Quotes

“You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!”
― Jennifer O'Neill, Inspirational Quotes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Life isn't about merely surviving. It's about living.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“Being strong means allowing yourself to cry over the things you can't change; laugh when things are funny; smile when you're happy. It means understanding where your breaking point is, and yet, going further and still remaining whole. Strong people push themselves to the limits of pain and joy. They fall to their knees in agony, then they lift up their faces to find the beautiful morning rays shining down on them, and they rise to their feet. Being strong means never giving up, no matter how crushed you are, and finding happiness in the smallest parts of life.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“Pain has a purpose. It makes us stronger. More compassionate. Able to love more deeply than we thought possible. If we let it, it makes us better people.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“We all die, Damian. Before I do, I want to love with all my heart. Give all I have, experience all I can, and leave behind some piece of me that will never be forgotten. I want to enjoy the time I have left. I'm choosing life. Moments. Memories. For you.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“You know, sometimes, what might seem like giving up is when we're in the midst of the toughest battle we'll ever face.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“No matter how dark it gets, the sun always rises eventually and starts a new day. The darkness is forgotten.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“I was strong because cancer is resolute, and I didn't want the beast to win.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“Is it too much to hope that maybe, just maybe, he could look past the cancer and see me?”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“Seriously Gabrielle? Look who you’re talking to—I’m a gay fairy. I’m the world’s biggest cliché.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Unearthly

“Like Britta, who strangely had something intelligent to add, said, Brighton trainers are trustworthy.”
― Ashley Byland, Breaking Through

“You know, the day we had dinner in the cafeteria, I almost bailed. Even now, I don’t know how I ended up in the chemo room with you. Then we got to talking, and I realized that after all you’ve been through, you still smiled. Still hoped. Cancer didn’t take that away from you. That moment I knew how much better you are than me.” I feel the corners of my lips tug upward as the memory envelops me. “And how much I loved seeing you smile.”
― D. Nichole King, Eight Days

“Being strong means allowing yourself to cry over the things you can’t change; laugh when things are funny; smile when you’re happy. It means understanding where your breaking point is, and yet, going further and still remaining whole.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“There's never enough time to say good-bye. Never enough time to say "I love you." Never enough time to let go.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate

“Pain, even though it hurt, made us stronger—if it didn’t destroy us first.”
― D. Nichole King, Love Always, Kate