Brittany > Brittany's Quotes

“And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Never underestimate the big importance of small things”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“The thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“But no matter what choices we make - solo or together - our finish line remains the same … No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“Sometimes the truth is a secret you're keeping from yourself because living a lie is easier.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I wasted all those yesterdays and am completely out of tomorrows.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don't seem to follow any.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“Happiness. The enemy of all suffering.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I used to think that the present determined the future. That if I worked hard, and long, I'd get the things I wanted. The job, the apartment, the life. That the future was simply a mound of clay waiting to be told by the present, what form to take. But that isn't true. It can't be.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
― Rebecca Serle, In Five Years

“The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the hopeful girl I would never be again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“That was like a hand clapped against Rose's chest, not to hurt, but astonish her, to take her breath away .”
― Alice Munro, Royal Beatings

“I have a feeling that is so hard to describe. It's like a boiled egg in my chest, with the shell left on.”
― Alice Munro, Royal Beatings

“March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find, until you step outside.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“I was born knowing how to do three things - how to breathe, how to dream, and how to love you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Lore

“My father traced his name on my heart. And his name will remain there. And because his name lives there, I will be a better man for it.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Happiness. Sorrow. Emotions are fickle things. Sadness, joy, anger, love. How did the universe think to invent emotions and insert them into human beings?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Everything is connected and everything belongs. Everything that is alive carries the breath of the universe.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“I'm sorry that the world is what it is. But you'll learn how to survive - and you'll have to create a space where you're safe and learn to trust the right people. And you will find happiness.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Mom, why didn't anybody tell me that love hurts so much?"
"If I had told you, would it have changed anything?”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“Cowards start wars, and the brave fight them.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“I thought he was only going to teach me how to swim in the waters of this swimming pool. Instead, he taught me how to dive into the waters of life.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“The world according to Ari and Dante. Dante and me walking through a world, a world nobody had ever seen, and mapping out all the rivers and valleys and creating paths so that the journeys of all of those who came after us through the wilderness wouldn't be scary. No one who came after us would ever get lost because of the maps we'd made.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“He was like a heart that was beating in every pore of my body. His heart was beating in my heart. His heart was beating in my head. His heart was beating in my stomach. His heart was beating in my legs. His heart was beating in my arms, my hands, my fingers. His heart was beating in my tongue, my lips. No wonder I was trembling.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“We didn't need to talk. Because we were discovering that the heart could make music. And we were listening to the music of the heart.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“There are moments in your life that you will always remember.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You matter more to the universe than you will ever know.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“You don't have to lead by telling other people what to do, you can lead by just letting them do what they're capable of instead.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People