Olivia > Olivia's Quotes

“Girls you are stronger than you know.. If you don't like being treated like a doormat the get the f**k off the floor.”
― Kelly Elliott, Wanted

“When the darkness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

“There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of the three questions, run like hell."
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"Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“respect the hand that I was dealt. And to be grateful I was even dealt a hand.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Despite my objections I realize, almost pathetically, that I have just experienced the most passionate kiss I've ever received from a guy - and it was on the freaking forehead!”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“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

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.”
― Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“I just can’t believe that life would give us to each other,’ he said, ‘and then take it back.’

‘I can,’ she said. ‘Life’s a bastard.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

“I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own.”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“I’d done it. I’d successfully pushed away two wonderful men. My desire to hurt neither of them, ended up hurting them both”
― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“No. I just never wanted to throw them away. Even if they were broken. I still loved them.”
― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“Even through the anger of losing you—I still knew you were my angel. My light.”
― Harper Sloan, Axel

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

“I promise you this. I’ll love you until the day I die even if I have to live without you. And if it’s fifty years from now, you come home, Nick Anderson. Do you hear me? I’ll be waiting on you.”
― Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree

“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a masochist all on its own, always gets its way.”
― J.A. Redmerski , The Edge of Never

“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“If you were to let me fuck you, you would have to let me own you.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Everybody starts out as strangers.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“But how can two people who are undeniably more than just attracted to one another not give in? We've been on the road together for almost two weeks. We've shared intimate secrets and we've been intimate in some ways. We've slept next to each other and touched one another, yet still here we are, standing on opposite sides of a thick glass wall. We reach up and touch our fingers to the glass, we look into each others eyes and we know what we want but the glass won't fucking budge. This is either inviolable discipline or pure, unadulterated self-torture.”
― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
― A.J. Cronin

“You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away." And then he left.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“When they're together, it's like putting a hurricane and a tornado in the same room - you can feel the tension. I didn't believe in the cliche of soul mates until I saw them together.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red