Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“Real love stories never have endings.”
― Richard Bach

“Because sometimes in life Ken doesn't always choose Barbie.”
― Rachel Gibson, See Jane Score

“You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.”
― Julia Quinn

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I feel like Sleeping Beauty, forever asleep, with the waking world continuing on without me fully aware. Only there is no prince to wake me from this slumber, this half-life.”
― Tiffany Clare, The Seduction of His Wife

“You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

“There is no problem that a library card can't solve.”
― Eleanor Brown

“Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.”
― Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
― Dante

“I won't apologize for the choices I made, because all of them brought me to the wonderful place I am today.”
― Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

“Because all the best people are different - look at the superheroes. After all, if superpowers were normal, everyone would have them.”
― Frederik Backman

“There are none who can fight as fiercely as a mother and a daughter, and none who can forgive more completely.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself back. No more subscribing to others' opinions of what you can and cannot achieve. And no more allowing anyone to pigeonhole you into useless categories of sex, race, economic status, and religion. Do not allow your talents to lie dormant, ladies. Design your own future. When you go home today, ask yourself what YOU will change. And then get started.”
― Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

“Maybe the point isn't always to make things last. Maybe it's just to make them count.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

“The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

“Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“This hurts too much to touch with words.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“He’s the sort of person who runs toward a fire. No hesitation, no questions, he just runs. People like that are rare, but you know who they are when you see them.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Sometimes, the greatest form of leadership is knowing the way home.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“If you want to achieve what no one else can, you have to do what no one else wants to do.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Winners

“Friendship,” Marx said, “is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“You remembered,” she said softly. “I remember every second of us.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“made you who you are. Gave you magic. Gave you guts. Mothers are the witches we know best but never acknowledge.”
― Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

“Grief is just a love song in reverse.”
― Ashley Poston, Sounds Like Love