Diane > Diane's Quotes

“There’s music everywhere, Mr. Baker. You just have to learn to listen”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.” SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING,”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Just because you find something abhorrent, doesn’t mean it actually is.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Friendship outstays the hurrying flight of years and aye abides through laughter and through tears.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“My dear Mrs. Post, had you not been able to move the glass doors to get the view you wanted, you would have just relocated the Monument itself, isn’t that right?”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“There is no pain like outliving a child.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“You are not responsible for anyone’s actions but your own.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“I did not take you for the kind of woman who would punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Tell the story with your ears. Listen.”
― Percival Everett, James

“Folks be funny lak dat. Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― Percival Everett, James

“It’s just that, sometimes, it feels like you’re back. But then I remember you’re not, and that makes me feel like”—he exhaled—“like I can’t breathe.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“But first, you gave me one.”
― Adrienne Young, The Unmaking of June Farrow

“we have to be grown-up and we don’t know how, because it’s so horribly, desperately easy to fail at being grown-up.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“you can’t protect your kids from life, because life gets us all in the end.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“The wife is the reason the man becomes the architect. The mistress is the reason the architect keeps building.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Can you sometimes just try to love what you hate about yourself?”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“A lot can be okay. It can be good. It’s better than nothing.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“the fantasy of believing someone else can give you what you don’t know how to give yourself.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Like the happiness becomes so big, you have no choice but to live inside of it,”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Love that you are just happy enough to feel.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“The best place to enjoy a stormy night is in a warm room with a book in your lap,”
― Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

“They found him! He’s safe!”
― Elsie Silver, Powerless

“To have lain my head on his shoulder, heard his advice in my ear? I conjured up a phantom of the man I wished I’d known. How I longed for him as the anchor to the evening and my life!”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“He cannot make me into nothing. He cannot evaporate me. He cannot render me invisible. He cannot make me lose myself. I won’t let him.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“Freedom has no musts.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

“There is a sort of happiness so overwhelming that it is almost unbearable, your soul seems to kick its way through your bones. You”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Being human is to grieve, constantly.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“But how do I explain that I’m freezing to death if I’m not seen by you?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“The children of addicts always know what the time is.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Because loyalty is a superpower.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends