Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Want is a kind of thief. It’s a door in your heart, and once you know it’s there, you’ll spend your life longing for whatever’s behind it.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“Maybe it's possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“For a decade, I've known I will never again have everything, and so all I've wanted is to believe that, someday, again, I'll have enough.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“That is what I'm looking for every time I flip to the back of a book, compulsively checking for proof that in a life where so many things have gone wrong, there can be beauty too. That there is always hope, no matter what.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“One person's pain doesn't negate another's. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That's one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”
― Raven Kennedy

“They can't make us go away just because they are done with us.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can't quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Losing a parent is something that doesn't hit you all at once. The loss happens again and again, every time you reach a milestone they should have witnessed, or you think of a question you wish you could ask them.”
― Sophie Lark, Roman

“Before I knew Wyn, I could have been okay without him. Now I'll always feel the place he isn't.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“I'm sorry for hurting you...for pushing you away...for ever making you feel unwanted when you're the only person I've ever loved”
― Ana Huang, King of Wrath