Audrey Ward > Audrey's Quotes

“Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
I self-center you more than ever.”
― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
― Alfred Tennyson

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.”
― Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup

“It’s a comforting thought knowing that no matter how old I get, I can always get older.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”
― Havelock Ellis

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe