Kaira Rouda > Kaira's Quotes

“Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.”
― Susan Issacs

“Well, it does make you realize that life, even at its longest, is still very short.”
― Kaira Rouda, All The Difference

“My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“It’s really a whole new feeling when you realize you’re in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions—or inaction.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“I marveled about our collective ability as women to keep all the pain hidden, just below the surface.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“It’s really a blessing, to let go of grudges, to forgive, and to move on. To allow yourself to get rid of what they called emotional hoarding.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“I didn’t know how good change could feel. I just worried about the risks, not the rewards.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“Life-change list Number Five: Don’t forget the care and feeding of friends.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“I'd learned balance is internal; that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.”
― Kaira Rouda, Here, Home, Hope

“No one you love is ever truly lost.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days”
― William Shakespeare

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Kate and I had gotten into a rut, a pattern where neither of us had the energy to do anything but work and try to manage Ashlyn. We were just barely keeping it together. There was no fun, no laughter. Every day was heavy.”
― Kaira Rouda, The Next Wife

“Everything I’ve done, I’ve done for you.”
― Kaira Rouda, The Next Wife

“It’s crazy to think that tragedy gets more attention than good news. I mean, not one of my friends texted about the IPO. But I guess that’s true of people in general. They only see what they want to see, even when the truth is right in front of them.”
― Kaira Rouda, The Next Wife