Katie > Katie's Quotes

“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“Kinda like trying to hold down a leaf in a tornado, but I'll try”
― Linda Castillo

“Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.”
― Carla Buckley, The Things That Keep Us Here

“Sage would survive. I'd survive. We were better off apart. Painful and quick, just like ripping off a Band-Aid. Well, more like gouging a piece of shrapnel out of my stomach, pouring a bottle of gin into the wound, lighting it on fire, and sewing my guts up with a dirty bootlace. But the concept was the same.”
― Brian Katcher, Almost Perfect

“You can live through most anything as long as you have the right tranquilizers on hand.”
― Mary Guterson, We Are All Fine Here

“I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.”
― James Patterson, Fang

“I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Enshrined

“Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse. ”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“And you can't have two stars in one relationship. Somebody has to be willing to be the wagon...at lease some of the time”
― Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

“It's more than the color.' He lifts my chin a little and our eyes reconnect. 'They have a dark line around the edge of the iris, a thing of natural beauty that brings your eyes to life. And they are intense; they shine like they're reflecting the light of a thousand stars, and they reflec...t me, too, and they make me want to be everything to you. And when you get angry, they dance a little, and every time it weakens my heart and makes me smile.”
― David Cristofano, The Girl She Used to Be

“Everything...affects everything”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Love", I said, "is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I'm not going to be a sucker ever again.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

“...but life doesn't give us the option to remake our decisions, only the power to reconceive them”
― Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

“Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad