Blatantly Brown > Blatantly's Quotes

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare

“I hope you find a place in your life when you can let go and be happy. But I’m not a dirty secret. I’m not bad and wrong for being comfortable with myself, and I won’t let you make me feel that way.”
― Lauren Dane, Laid Bare

“You’re weird. I thought brothers were supposed to pretend their sisters were sexless.”
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“I’m your brother, not an idiot. If he hurts you, I’ll crush him, but I want you to be happy. You want him and that’s enough for me.”
― Lauren Dane, Laid Bare

“Sleep. I’m here to catch you.”
― Lauren Dane, Laid Bare

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now...if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting taste wrapped around nothing but air.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

“Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“You are mine. I recognize you. We twist our souls around each other's miseries. It is that which makes us family.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“There is a breed of men out there, you know, who are attracted to strong women. They just don’t know what to do once they win us over.”
― Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go

“It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.”
― Lisa Gardner, Touch & Go

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world
but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do
I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.
well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Rebecca Katherine Martin

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Feet, what do I need them for
If I have wings to fly.”
― Frida Kahlo