Nicole Dunton > Nicole's Quotes

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“It's a strange courage
you give me ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!”
― William Carlos Williams

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion or regard for you.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“It’s weird how we have to get a little older to realize that people are just people. It should be obvious, but it’s not.”
― Christine Riccio, Again, But Better

“My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“Maybe we can't barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“Sometimes hope can be poisonous.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“When things come to an end in a way you didn't expect, in a way you never could have imagined, do they really come to an end? Does it mean you should keep searching, for better answers, for ones that don't keep you up at night? Or does it mean it's time to make peace?”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“Isn't love the opposite of rational?”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“I would care that someone understood we were flawed and scarred and doing the best we could in this war. We were wrapped up in things that were so much bigger than ourselves. We didn't know. We didn't mean to. It wasn't our fault.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“Tow best friends meeting on the street to say so many things at once: I betrayed you, I love you, I want to save you, I'm sorry. All around Europe, people are dying by the hundreds of thousands. And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“I found a girl who wasn't the girl I was looking for. I let go of a friend I'll still miss every day. I'll go back to work. I'll get better. I'll get better slowly. I'll find all the secret, hidden things.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“Maybe we can’t barter our feelings away, trading good deeds for bad ones and expecting to become whole.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“let go of a friend I’ll still miss every day. I’ll go back to work. I’ll get better. I’ll get better slowly. I’ll find all the secret, hidden things.”
― Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

“We are nothing in the grand scheme of things, and yet in that nothingness lies everything.”
― Darice Cairns, The Art of Finding Truth: One Man's Journey Through Love, Life, Grief and Joy

“Terri had been a teenager when Amy was killed, had babysat for her.”
― Matt Witten, The Necklace