Theresa > Theresa's Quotes

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I know,” I whispered and when he blinked up, his familiar eyes looking past the surface, burning with everything I felt, I was sucked in, and all common sense was gone.”
― Theresa Paolo, [Never] Again

“Nine, how your hands are always cold, but they are the warmest touch I've ever felt.”
― Theresa Paolo, [Once] Again

“Name one thing you love about me."

"I can name five.”
― Theresa Paolo, [Once] Again

“However,” I say and wait till her eyes finally meet mine. “I will work for something else.” “And what’s that?” “A shower.”
― Tessa Marie, Home is Where You Are

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“If you don't like the hand that fate's dealt you, fight for a new one.”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“We only get to be in our bodies for a limited time, why not celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until it’s over?”
― Jen Sincero, You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.”
― Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

“My mouth went dry, my heart clattered. "Nick, don't leave. Don't go," I said unevenly. "Look, it's not that I'm not, you know... it's just that this is all really new and sudden, and it's hard—"
"It's not hard for me!" he barked, causing both the cabbie and me to jump. "Harper, I've loved you all my adult life, but you just can't believe that, and nothing I do will change your mind. You want a guarantee, you want a fucking crystal ball to see the future, and I can't give you one. The only thing I can say is that I love you, I always have. I always will, but somehow that's not good enough for you. And I just can't do this anymore.”
― Kristan Higgins, My One and Only

“And she understood more than ever before that this big, strong man with the tattoos running up and down his arms perhaps hadn't felt loved by very many people before.”
― Toni Blake, Whisper Falls