Kirsty Hanson > Kirsty's Quotes

“Love was lazy as hell. Love laid around in bed, warm from the sheets and the sunlight pouring into the room. Love was too lazy to get up to close the blinds. Love was too comfortable to get up and go pee. Love took too many naps, it watched TV, but not really, because it was too busy kissing and napping. Love was also funny, which somehow made the bed more comfortable, the laughter warming the sheets, softening the mattress and the lovers’ skin.”
― Adi Alsaid, Never Always Sometimes

“When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Blue had two rules: stay away from boys, because they’re trouble, and stay away from raven boys, because they were bastards.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“It is one thing to ask questions; what do you do with the answers?”
― Teri Terry, Slated

“Failure is not an option.”
― Teri Terry

“I was depressed. I guess I still am”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not even afraid of death itself. It's more of a profound... not wanting to leave the party”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“My first instinct was to come rushing to you. To scream in your face, to shake you out of it... anything to get you to come back to me. But I knew that you needed to take the time on your own. We all have a different journey.”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“We all have a different journey.”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“Your particular trip isn't done just yet. Remember that true enlightenment is never finished. Ever. Understanding is never complete.”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure to screens at young ages. Developing primate brains are wired to interact with others in a real environment, learning the enormous range of human behaviours from copying the people they love and trust, not staring mindlessly at images.”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“Time is one terrible enemy.”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“It was the first time that he'd cried in a very long time. All of his emotions poured out now, in a great rush of release: it was sadness tinged with bitterness, but mostly an intensely deep feeling of loss.”
― EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

“I was trying to work out who I was.”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.”
― Sue Whitaker

“I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would they put me in a padded cell and feed me through a hatch door? Would I end up in one of those places that you hear about, where people go in but never come out?”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“I would need an awful lot of willpower to fight my way through the ups and downs of the road to recovery, and there might be times when I may feel a bit down and depressed, but there would be counsellors that I could talk to about how I was feeling.”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“I thought doctors were supposed to make you better not worse!”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“I didn't feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone”
― Sue Whitaker, Remember Remember

“Lots of people think that love is giving flowers or chocolates, or taking walks in the moonlight, but for me that’s all just decoration. Love is much more profound and true than that; it’s being able to really take care of the other person.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“I’ve never known anyone like you.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“Everyone I know has a dream they hope to fulfill: traveling, starting a business, buying a house, whatever. And every time they spend money on unnecessary luxuries, they’re stealing money and life from their dreams. They’re prioritizing something that really has no value compared to what really matters.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“Good Lord, just look at that six pack!” She sighed. “I think you could grate cheese there.”

“Fran, if you were with Daniel Craig with no shirt, I think the last thing you would think about would be grating cheese.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“It’s the song of a man trying to forget a woman, but then he realizes it’s impossible, that not being with her is harmful and he dies of despair, not knowing whether she still wants to be with him.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“I’ve been going through my own personal hell.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“All I can do now is carry on with my life.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin

“She wasn’t sure she could ever forget him.”
― Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin