Stacy > Stacy's Quotes

“Once a heart breaks…it doesn’t just grow back. It’s not a lizard’s tail. It’s more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it’s not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn’t make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don’t mend and they don’t heal. They just don’t work that way.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“Sometimes we have to go through difficult times in life," he said. "But they're just a test, and if we stay strong, we're eventually rewarded.”
― Chevy Stevens

“I hate them for not being in pain like me, hate them for being able to enjoy themselves. Hate myself for feeling that way.”
― Chevy Stevens, Still Missing

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“...when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.”
― Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

“but when I got down to it, I was doomed without her. She's the breath in me.”
― Robyn Carr, Angel's Peak

“Daddy? Daddy, I know the baby is in the mommy‟s tummy and the baby comes out of the mommy‟s tummy, but, Daddy? How do that baby get in the mommy‟s tummy?”
― Robyn Carr, Angel's Peak

“loving somebody gets better the more you do it.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“I’m one half of a two-piece puzzle.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“this…living with a broken heart is living half dead, and that doesn’t mean you’re half alive. It means you’re half dead. And…that’s no way to live.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“love is worth doing. No matter how much it hurts.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering…and the accepting.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone...way down deep, use words.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“I don't give a shit how it happened, the window is broken... Wait, why is there syrup everywhere? Okay, you know what? Now I give a shit how it happened, Let's hear it.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“On my seventh birthday party:
No, you can't have a bouncy house at your birthday party...What do you mean, why? Have you ever thought to yourself, where would I put a god-damned bouncy house in our backyard?...Yeah, that's right, that's the kind of shit I think about , that you just think magically appears.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

“Do you agree with that About saying 'forever' and being sure? I do. Will you tell me when you think you're there? Sure. Good. June? Yes? I'm there. You go ahead and take your time.”
― Robyn Carr, Down by the River

“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, The Scottish Prisoner