Heather Serrano > Heather's Quotes

“I can't stop thinking about what he felt like against my body, against my lips. I can't remember anything else, anything before that. And I realize in this moment that I've finally done it. That horrible, awful thing I swore I would never do.

The frosting. The cigarettes. The blue glass triangle. The shooting stars. The taste of his mouth on mine in the hall closet. Gone. All I can think about is Sam. Matt is – erased. My whole body is warm and buzzing. Sam is smiling next to me, because of me. And I've never felt so lonely in all my life.”
― sarah ockler

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
― Yves Saint Laurent

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
― Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
― Cher

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach