Caryl > Caryl's Quotes

“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“Life was like doing this speech. It wasn't necessarily about the end result, but more about trying.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout

“We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“The only way to get to the good is to walk through the bad.”
― Kiera Cass, The Guard

“Accepting help is its own kind of strength”
― Kiera Cass, The Guard

“We're all weird and damaged in our own way. You're not the only one.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“It's not moving on, Libbs. It's moving differently. That's all it is. Different life. Different world. Different rules. We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“Fear is a hungry beast. The more you feed it, the more it grows.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“We've been separated. But we had never really been apart.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Problem with Forever

“There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“All humans make mistakes. What determines a person's character aren't the mistakes we make. It's how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“I’ll keep pretending to swim, when really all I’m doing is floating. Barely keeping my head above water.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog

“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“I only know that learning to believe in the power of my own words has been the most freeing experience of my life. It has brought me the most light. And isn't that what a poem is? A lantern glowing in the dark.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Burn it! Burn it. This is where the poems are,” I say, thumping a fist against my chest. “Will you burn me? Will you burn me, too?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Maybe, the only thing that has to make sense
about being somebody's friend
is that you help them be their best self
on any given day. That you give them a home
when they don't want to be in their own.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Late into the night I write and the pages of my notebook swell from all the words I’ve pressed onto them.
It almost feels like the more I bruise the page the quicker something inside me heals.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“Maybe there are no words to say. I just want to be held.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
― Cathy Guiswite

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“DEAR WOMAN, Sometimes You’ll just be too much woman. Too smart, Too beautiful, Too strong. Too much of something That makes a man feel like less of a man, Which will start making you feel like you have to be less of a woman. The biggest mistake you can make Is removing jewels from your crown To make it easier for a man to carry. When this happens, I need you to understand, You do not need a smaller crown— You need a man with bigger hands.”
― Michael Reid, Dear Woman

“In a perfect world, a woman receives her crown from her father, and her mother shows her how it is to be worn.”
― Michael Reid, Dear Woman

“The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“when you are broken
and he has left you
do not question
whether you were
enough
the problem was
you were so enough
he was not able to carry it”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey