Chrissy Lear > Chrissy's Quotes

“That’s because humans are built to live with pain.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Marrow

“I’ll give you all the pennies, Casey. I’ll give you them all.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“I’d say her laugh is soft like a feather fluttering along a porch floor. You want to pick it up and touch it, but you don’t want to ruin its journey. It’s perfect as it moves along, undisturbed. The sound is one that can’t be described. It just is. A sound that finds its way down into the very marrow of your bones. Roots inside and lives there. Quivers and quakes—a constant reminder that it’s there.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“Pretty is one word and she is many. Beautiful. Alluring. Appealing. Charming. Cute. Dazzling. Delicate. Delightful. Elegant. Exquisite. Fascinating. Fine. Gorgeous. Graceful. Lovely. Magnificent. Marvelous. Pleasing. Splendid. Stunning. Wonderful. Superb. Angelic. Bewitching. Classy. Divine. Excellent. Enticing. Foxy. Fair. Pulchritudinous. Radiant. Ravishing. Resplendent. Shapely. Beautiful.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“I’ve spied on his emails that he writes back and forth with Tyler each day, but I can’t connect that Torin with the Torin I know. My Torin doesn’t like to make eye contact. My Torin is abrupt. My Torin makes sounds of distress when the movies get too loud. My Torin behaves erratically and doesn’t seem to give me the time of day aside from the trails of pennies he leaves everywhere.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“My emotions threaten to consume me. I went from having no one who cared about me, aside from a social worker who was paid to—to having two men desperate to keep me safe and secure in their home.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“He was ready to throttle me and I couldn’t be more ecstatic.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“The vase is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before and upon closer inspection, I see someone has glued the shiniest pennies all over it in a pattern. It’s perfect.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“I couldn’t choose one type to represent you. You’re everything at once. Every pretty thing in one breathtaking package.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“I watch them from my comfy recliner in our living room through the giant windows as they work in the yard. Our home has more windows than any house I’ve ever seen. My wife designed it that way. Pride surges through me.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“Casey is a calm to my chaos. A rainbow after my storm.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“I breathelicktastetouchsmellfeelneed you.” I sniffle as I squeeze him to me. “I love you too, Torin.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“A tear rolls down his cheek, catching me by surprise. “I laughed for you.”
― K. Webster, My Torin

“books are passports to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the world”
― Melissa de la Cruz, Rise of the Isle of the Lost

“And if life was not going to deal her a happily-ever-after, then at least it would be filled with enough joy to make everything well worth it.”
― Nicole Baart, Sleeping in Eden: A Novel

“This is real. This is us. And if you let it be, this is forever.”
― C.L. Matthews, Inhale, Exhale.

“This is how the sickness travels best: through all the same channels as do fondness and friendship and love.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Worry, she often reminds her patients, is a kind of creativity. Fear is an act of the imagination.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“When one's life seems broken beyond repair, there remains one last move: a person can at least shut her eyes.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“To close one's eyes can be an act of survival.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Here is what he has learned about loving a baby: the time away from her is vital to the pleasure of being with her.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Maybe home isn’t a place. Maybe it’s a person.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“They make me think of old pennies and dark secrets.”
― Natalie D. Richards, My Secret to Tell

“He can’t do them, and Chelsea always wants one. Funny what the same grief can do to two different people.”
― Natalie D. Richards, My Secret to Tell

“So, what, you believe in nothing?” Julien says, obviously to Val. “Of course,” she says. “How gullible can you be?” “How faithless can you be?” says Julien.”
― Diana Urban, Under the Surface

“Gotta dream big”
― Lucy Score, The Corpse in the Closet